Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dared to criticize the Soviet Union. Scolding the editor of Trybuna Ludu, the main party newspaper, for expressing "adventurous private opinions," Gomulka sent him off to a minor party job in the provinces, took the resignations of eight staff members, and appointed as new editor a party hack who had run the newspaper during the years Gomulka was in jail. A magazine was confiscated, and its editor fired, when it reprinted an angry article on Stalinism by French ex-Fellow Traveler Jean-Paul Sartre. An iron censorship was imposed on the bright reformist weeklies. Said one ex-editor: "I cannot...
...Hall is bowing out of his job because he wants to run against Democrat Averell Harriman for governor of New York in 1958, and well knows that a party chairman, no matter how talented, is considered something of a political hack when it comes to a campaign for high office. Therefore, when Hall gets back from a month or more of sunning and fishing at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., he is expected to move into a high-level Washington job, where he can not only put his talents to work for the Administration that he helped reelect, but prove that...
...composer of these lines for the Hasty Pudding Show, "The Fattest Calf," given 41 years ago, was not destined to be a run of the mill Tin Pan Alley hack; in fact, these were probably the last musical lyrics he ever wrote...
...sophisticates. They know not of the secret workings of Providence; they are men of little faith. If our forefathers had left freedom to the slave, would there ever have been the Great War? If the people of the West, like great stones, stand oblivious of the seed, we must hack at them until they crumble. The first apostles were never deterred by lack of interest; know, friends, the dramatic power of martyrdom at the hands of the savages...
...Charming, but Petta Bellot has always operated on the theory that variety is the spice of love. Since Quintin believes that "we are all victims, one of another," both girls have a rather unhappy time of it. Quintin decamps, and Ellie carries a torch, but Petta promptly produces a hack writer as a consolation prize^-a has-been as a man of letters but a still-is as a lover...