Word: hacking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Baroque organ at the Germanic Museum is Volume 111 of J. S. Bach's Little Organ Book, to my mind the least interesting of the month's releases. The precludes in the volume, written for Christmas and the New year, are dry and colorless, the kind of hack work every composer turns out at some time or other, which had much better be forgotten. Nor does Biggs's jumbled, unclear performance add anything to the music. A different story are the Bach Chorales sung in German by the Trapp Family Choir, also on Victor Records. The Trapps' unaffected singing...