Word: hatchet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early as last November, reporters heard rumors that Brill was out to do a hatchet job on Jimmy Carter. Brill maintains, "I expected it to be a positive piece, but it didn't turn out that way." Says Clay Felker, editor of New York magazine, where Brill is a contributing editor: "He's a fantastic reporter, a trained lawyer who is not afraid to look at documents for the facts." A Washington-based political correspondent has another opinion. "Brill is a hit man," he says with concern. "He's the liberal enforcer...
...well-publicized hatchet job on Jimmy Carter appears under the headline "Jimmy Carter's Pathetic Lies." No doubt there was plenty of chortling down at the office about that headline. Only problem was, it took a great headline possibility away from Nelson W. Aldrich Jr. '57, who might have loved to call his cover story "Harvard's Pathetic Lies." Instead, he settled for "Harvard On The Way Down"--an equally catchy headline, really, full of the spirit of debunkery that sweeps through the March issue...
...around former President Richard Nixon, probably none was more hated than Chuck Colson, top hatchet man and tireless inventor of dirty tricks. There was a sense of national satisfaction when he pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and served seven months in jail. Now, in a book to be published in mid-February, Colson, 44, tells how, in embracing evangelical Christianity, he learned the error of his ways-and of his fallen chiefs. Born Again (Chosen Books, a religious publisher) is an uncomplaining and contrite testament to the belief, renewed each generation, that power corrupts...
...could do a real hatchet...
Even more objectionable than the proposed wage reform was the industrial-relations expert who was selected to negotiate it−Fred Straw. Peach describes Straw as "a hatchet man," and even John Owen concedes that he was a rather aloof, overbearing man who gave the unions the false impression that "shock troops of management were coming in to sort things...