Word: hatcheteering
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...editors of the George Washington University Hatchet had only harsh words of welcome for the Mayday forces. "The 'give peace a chance' gang had their day last week and now they are gone," said a Hatchet editorial entitled "Forget It." "A new crowd is in town now . . . They have plans that we find disturbing, self-defeating and absurd...
Mike Royko's Boss isn't such a waste of ink. It is something of a hatchet job, but it explains something that few of the editorial writers bothered to touch upon, namely, that in the process of building downtown, Daley has ignored the neighborhoods. Royko, who is a Chicago Daily News columnist, attacks the old forms of corruption: the election fraud, the kickbacks, the small rackets. Indeed, he describes many cases of old-fashioned corruption in the matter-of-fact way which is his strength as a reporter...
Royko is a newspaperman, a columnist and commentator for the Chicago Daily News. Though his book is essentially a hatchet job, released more or less to coincide with the campaign for last week's mayoralty election in Chicago, Royko sees Mayor Richard Daley as an inevitable product of the Chicago environment. The mayor was born into a workingman's family in Bridgeport, an Irish neighborhood in that South Side region known, without comment, as Back of the Yards. He was born to membership in the Hamburgs, an athletic club whose members took their exercise by beating the bejesus...
...last year that he was under attack from "a squadron of enraged Amazons, an honor guard of revolutionary vaginas." He admits to naiveté in visualizing his female adversaries as "thin college ladies with eyeglasses, no-nonsense features, mouths thin as bologna slices, a babe in one arm, a hatchet in the other, gray eyes bright with balefire." When he protests to chic Radical Chick Gloria Steinem that he doesn't know what Women's Lib has against him. she tells him tartly: "You might try reading your books some day." Manhattan Congresswoman Bella Abzug adds: "We think...
...difference, observed one White House aide, is that "Rog is a big old St. Bernard, while Dole is a hungry Doberman pinscher." One leading Republican offers an intriguing rationale for the switch: Morton was never as partisan as Nixon wanted, so Vice President Spiro Agnew took up the hatchet duties. Now Dole will eagerly perform them, while an attempt is made to soften the Agnew image and give him broader appeal; if this fails, Agnew will be dropped from the 1972 ticket...