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...Amphibious Life. The difficulty maids had in defending their chastity was immortalized by Samuel Richardson in Pamela. In fact, so much uninhibited dalliance went on belowstairs that Hack Writer Daniel Defoe found the maids fair game. Nothing is more common, he wrote, "than to find these creatures one week in a good family and the next in a brothel. This amphibious life makes 'em fit for neither, for if the bawd use them ill, away they trip to service and if their mistress gives 'em a wry word, whip they're at a bawdyhouse again, so that...
...with all the amusing ironies of hindsight and foreknowledge relive key episodes in their communal life. Sam at 20 (John Horton) is an ardent lyric poet and marathon runner, at 40 (Donald Davis) a disgruntled fictional crafts man of obscure worst-sellers, at 60 (Dennis King) a rich, popular hack novelist and flagging voluptuary. Old Sam is still trying to learn the lesson of his life as the four Sams discuss marriage, mistresses, goals and the gulf between father and son, a relationship vividly accented by Paul Rogers' portrayal of a paternal Victorian martinet. Ustinov's conclusions...
...began last fall, when Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan, having investigated complaints that authority inspectors were shaking down licensees and applicants, ordered a grand jury investigation. The first witness called was Liquor Authority Chairman Martin Epstein, 70, a Brooklyn political hack who was appointed to his $24,000-a-year post by Governor Nelson Rockefeller in 1960. Epstein, a diabetic whose left leg was recently amputated, was carried before the grand jury on a stretcher. He refused to waive his immunity (a sort of backdoor way of taking the Fifth Amendment), which is grounds for dismissal under the state constitution...
Small Ripple. He now describes the term Angry Young Men as "a journalistic label that is meaningless." The writers so described, he says, are actually artists who deal in social protest but do not hack at it; they symbolize no social revolution. "I wish there were a social revolution in England." he says, "but there hasn't been a ripple...
Sometimes Rossini wrote good operas poorly; sometimes he wrote bad operas well. The mind of a genius and the soul of a hack confronted him like matched pistols, and under the guns, he once wrote 28 operas in ten years. But now and then while on vacation from himself, Gioacchino Rossini wrote a great opera, and at such times there was no one like him The glory of this man." wrote Stendhal in 1823. "is only limited by the limits of civilization itself; and he is not yet 32." That same year Rossini pushed civilization's limits back...