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Make him into a monk if you have to, but don't turn him into a hack with no vision. If Holden Caulfield did turn out to be a schoolteacher, he would take infinite delight in the shine on the braces of the boy sitting in the third row, or something. He would know that was why he was pushing the rock all over the place...
...also decided to hack further into the system of fixed commissions that brokers charge on stock transactions. Starting in April, brokers will have to negotiate fees with customers who buy or sell stock in blocks worth more than $300,000; the minimum now is $500,000. Though the new rule is less stringent than some Wall Streeters had expected, it still will cut brokers' revenues by practically forcing them to reduce commissions on more trades executed for hard-bargaining mutual funds and other big investors. Richard Jenrette, president of Manhattan's Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, predicts that...
They weren't playing their good songs, just their hack-around junk. They were listless and basically uncaring. When the Dead are good, they are truly magical--they can create a frenzy out of nothing. But even "Dark Star" was done mostly (so it seemed) for form's sake. It was a crumb thrown to their fans in lieu of a real "Evening With the Grateful Dead"--the mystical communion of souls and music that only the Dead can initiate and then sustain. Lately, their magic hasn't been much in evidence...
...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...
...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...