Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vote in Boston and have no stake in DiCara's campaign but he hardly needs an amateur version of hack reportage. Peace, Jean Bergantini Grillo...
...uncertain an affirmation as Malamud has ever written. In past stories and novels such as The Assistant, A New Life, The Fixer, suffering usually stretched a character's awareness of life's tragic limitations. In The Tenant, men hack blindly at each other's flesh, and the author labors to discern some faint compassion in the violence. Like Lesser, Malamud too has had trouble finishing his book. The difficulty is underscored by an epilogue in which Levenspiel, the landlord whom circumstance has also made a victim of the combat, sets up a liturgical cry for mercy...
...epitomizes all that is obnoxious and pathetic in people who get ahead in the world, is now M.P. His newly acquired wife is the fabled Pamela Flitton, as bitchy and beautiful as she is promiscuous. Widmerpool is backing Nick's magazine and its editor, a furtive, bibulous literary hack known in the trade as Books-Do-Furnish-a-Room Bagshaw. Pamela is backing a gifted, eccentric writer in the magazine's stable, X. Trapnel, to the extent that she leaves Widmerpool and moves in with him. Ultimately she destroys him and returns to Widmerpool, while the intrigues surrounding...
...fear that President Nixon's new game plan for the economy [Aug. 30] will prove but another palliative, providing symptomatic relief only. Until something is done to limit the monopoly powers of labor unions, hack away at bloated budgets with their expansionary deficits and multiplier-effect powers, and restore market pressures to industries currently propped up by subsidies and tariffs, the pressures that created the present situation will persist...
...among the more relaxed ranks of the counterculture, Reich (no kin to Yale Law Professor Charles Reich, author of The Greening of America) sees an alarming tendency to conformity and an unconscious yearning for authority. "I hope to be a kind of cross between a philosopher and a political hack," he says. Looking back on his own class, he muses: "We were the real liberationists...