Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Percy, as pragmatic as he is ambitious, had aimed to run for Governor again in 1968, and he protested his reluctance to take on Douglas. "You can't fault Paul Douglas as being lackluster or a hack," he said. "He is a solidly entrenched, hard-working Senator. He has managed very successfully to disassociate himself, in the public mind, from the Daley machine, while receiving all the benefit of its work. He works for every welfare measure that comes up and yet has the image of favoring econ omy in Government because he harasses the Pentagon on the cost...
...Democratic fat cats, "this Lindsay" was a freak, a Park Avenue big talker, a silk-stocking boy. Their candidate, City Controller Abraham David Beame, 59, a mild, mite-size (5 ft. 2 in.) party hack, was admittedly no giantkiller, but he comfortably fitted the mediocre mold to which they were accustomed. Few believed that cynical New Yorkers would be moved by the eager idealism and outraged accusations of this Lindsay-the towering (6 ft. 3 in.), wavy-haired Republican whose improbable good looks and earnest eloquence plainly marked him a do-gooder and an amateur by Tammany's hard...
...bright-looking students, flocking around Lindsay as if his first name were Vachel, were the most obvious departure from the usual hack-packed New York mayoralty-campaign headquarters. But, beyond that, there was a notable shortage of G.O.P. professionals, big or little. To blur his party markings, Lindsay had asked all Republicans of national consequence to stay away. "I don't need officialdom to build me up," he said. "I don't think the public will vote for me just because a distinguished person says they should...
...could be broken up by the sun's radiation and gravitational field. If it survives its solar encounter, the comet discovered by a piano-key polisher and a guitar instructor will then disappear into the nether reaches of space-considerably beyond Pluto-and will not come hack into view for some 500 to 1,000 years...
Parts of this book have been serialized in 37 newspapers and magazines, and much has already been written about its accounts of such controversial episodes as Kennedy's choice of a Vice President and his blunder at the Bay of Pigs. Even so, those willing to hack through the whole thing, with its forbidding thicket of words (more than 350,000), should find the effort worthwhile. Despite the foliage. Kennedy comes through as an immensely appealing man, one who ''followed Franklin's advice of 'early to bed, early to rise' only when he could...