Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party did not even try to rent the Garden.) The faithful in 1950 wouldn't have filled one bleacher section in the Garden. The press was barred, and even the location of convention headquarters was kept secret until meetings were under way. "You know," explained one party hack, "we're not exactly popular...
...Golden State (by Samuel Spewack; produced by Bella Spewack) is a hack comedy that sinks even that bounciest and most cork-brained of comediennes, Josephine Hull. Playwright Spewack sets out to kid California's well-known ambition to be El Dorado when, it grows up. Actress Hull plays a hopeful landlady who, through a Spanish ancestor, lays property claims to all of Beverly Hills. Ernest Truex plays a hopeful prospector who thinks he discovers gold in Miss Hull's back yard and makes frenzied forty-niners of the other roomers...
James T. Farrell, final speaker on the program, said that writing today is a respectable trade, and that American novelists have no need to apologize. Once a hotbed of commercialism and infantilism in public taste, America is still a "hack-writers' paradise" in some respects, but the serious authors have had financial success, indicating that a sizable part of the reading public is reasonably intelligent...
Author Schulberg estimates that "at least 50%, and maybe more, of the book is true." Fitzgerald fans will therefore judge The Disenchanted as a piece of spiritual (if not entirely factual) biography, but readers without their special interest will take it for the careering, hell-in-a-hack excitement of its story...
...General Hershey has been interested merely in your age, your glands, and how well you look in khaki. When the latest deferment brainchild is confirmed, he will be interested in your next hour exam as well. To get college men for the army, the General plans to hack away at each class from the bottom...