Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delegates of either party to their state organizations was under $240 a year; less than 30% gave as much as $500. What really marks the typical delegate is a long record of giving time and energy to the party of his choice. This is what may pin the hack label upon him-though it also clearly demonstrates a continuing concern, whether base or altruistic, that makes him feel far more entitled to shape the political process than his long-indifferent neighbors...
Even if he's sometimes a hack, he's seldom a boob, He knows more about the issues, and has much stronger opinions about them, than the overwhelming majority of ordinary voters. He has seen and heard the candidates in person, even if through a smog of rhetoric. He is worried about the war and the riots and his own role in nominating a President. Inevitably, he values party loyalty and remembers long service. He reads the polls and weighs what he wants against...
Because of today's declining market for fiction, says Fleming in this week's New York Times Book Review, writers are producing journalism to make a living-an advance over writing hack fiction or Hollywood scripts. Beyond that, journalism enables them to escape from their own introspection, the "feeling of feeding on one's own vitals, of using up and then repeating and restringing ad nauseam one's autobiographic experience." Journalism replenishes their experiences of the world...
...decent editor might have been able to hack free some interesting thoughts from yards of Year-bok-style verbiage. ("The situation I have seen that probably best exemplifies this conflict of criteria is the plight of the high school super-athlete at Harvard," writes the jock.) On the other hand, nothing good could come from the idiotic little statistical "analysis" of the senior class taken from the blurbs accompanying seniors' pictures...
...charisma,' 'existential' (used seriously), 'dialogue' (as applied to political talks between nations) and 'vocabulary' (as applied to a dauber). Listing in one breath Auschwitz, Hiroshima and Viet Nam is seditious poshlost. Belonging to a very select club (which sports one Jewish name, that of the treasurer) is genteel poshlost. Hack reviews are frequently poshlost, that is simple, but it also lurks in certain highbrow essays. Poshlost calls Mr. Blank a great poet, and Mr. Bluff a great novelist. One of poshlost's favorite breeding places has always been the Art Exhibition; there it is produced by so-called sculptors working...