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...later: "He chooses to suppress--the sin of omission. He does not lie to us." The authors dismiss the other interpretation--that Carter is just another hack politician in the Bilboesque tradition--in a series of short clauses and brief references...
...first meet in Blodgett Pool and it went down to the last relay. I got so excited that I wrote on my scorecard that Bobby Mackett and Julian Hack were swimming for Harvard," Daniel says, smiling at the memory of the successful outcome...
...mess, all the frictions and bad smells generated by social change and people exercising their constitutional rights. Jefferson had an idea that democracy should be genteel, but it did not work out that way. And today, there is no point in growing as mistily sentimental as a Soviet realist hack about the pleasures of right thinking and conformity...
...Loose Ends as the days of this decade dwindle. These vignettes about two people who play desperately at love, only to fumble and lose, contain more honest sensitivity about Americans in the '70s than any slick, year-end-wrap-up-mag or heart warming-hollywood-hack...
WHEN BRIAN McCUE QUIT as director of this show, consensus held it would sink. Enter Shipley Munson. Under the guidance of producer Mark Stone, he patched it up, and then steered it to satire, while avoiding hack. His predictable cynicism--"let's poke a little fun at it as we go along"--creeps in here, but on the whole the calisthenics amuse the youngsters without alienating their chaperones...