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...little group crossed two backyards, trampled three flower beds and thus reached the coast of Swampscott. They proceded to a large red the rock. Then each individual began to hack away the rock with his hammer. The Leader picked up a small piece; "Silurian amygdaloidal pyroxenite." And the group wrote in their little black books. This ritual they repeated at several other large rocks. Many slippery smaller rocks were in their way. And the sea burst its spray upon them. They all got their feet wet. And when they reached a very high point on the coast, one slipped...
NEVER COME BACK-John Nair-Little, Brown ($2.50). After throttling his leman, a London hack writer discovers she possessed the secret code of a traitorous political organization. His immoral cunning helps him quench the national danger and save his own skin after more murders, torture, Buchanesque chases and all-round wickedness. A thoroughly unprincipled, exciting, ably written tale...
...world as it once was and will never be again, and what I tried to say in my book was: here are a lot of fine people, having a fine time and all around them the world is going to hell in a hack and they don't seem to care...
...better ones. By picturing this war as a kind of Holy Crusade which high school histories record but which the world has never seen, and by prodding the passions of the multitudes (with good publicity, "If Judgment Comes" can run "White Cliffs" a close race for the most popular hack poetry of the year), Noyes may help win the war, but will surely help lose the peace. Only by the frank recognition that this war is no different from 1914 and 1870 and not too different from 1815 and before--springing from the same sources and in danger of being...
From this it was but a step to supporting the Communist Party, especially when Marxists pointed out that while under capitalism, a writer is either a wretched hack or a vulgar best seller, under Communism he is a privileged employe of the State...