Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Enough quibbling. They've transformed a hack's piece into something golden. Throw money...
This is Nat Turner's message-and Styron's. His story flows relentlessly to its collision with horror. The conspirators hack off heads as if vengeance alone were the insurrection's aim. The de fenders of slavery respond as bloodily; more than 200 Negroes, most of them innocent, die in reprisal. U.S. slavery's only true revolt vanishes into the darkness before the Civil War. "It just ain't a race made for revolution, that's all," says a court officer smugly...
...tell it too. Their 1965 song, Nowhere Man ("Doesn't have a point of view, knows not where he's going to") asked: "Isn't he a bit like you and me?" Last year's Paperback Writer cheerfully skewered the craven commercialism of the hack...
...salesman blinks, frowns, and throws brick through window. Homeowner throws brick through windshield of salesmen's car. Salesmen attack homeowner's piano with axes, swat vases with spade handles. Homeowner tears off car headlights, doors, gas tank and sets auto ablaze. Salesmen demolish house, dig up lawn, hack down trees and shrubbery...
...ended after a year at the Kentucky Military Institute, where he mastered little more than the soldierly bearing that carried him through life. He taught himself, imperfectly, the art of poetry and, with more success, how to write taut and economical prose. Then he squandered the education on venomous hack work for West Coast literary journals and as a columnist for William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner. He never wrote anything longer than a short story; he was not in the habit of writing a paragraph when just a word would do. The Devil's Dictionary...