goldbricker

Duerson was not some overpaid deadbeat or goldbricker.

Silvers makes life in the armed forces seem like a rainbow-colored version of a goldbricker's dream.

There is the salty Regular Navy-man who makes things tough for the fresh-water PT-boat jockeys; there are the stock-comic enlisted men with true hearts and rural accents; there is even the inevitable goldbricker who works always at being transferred Stateside.

Writing with an incisiveness that recalls Conrad, Novelist Matthiessen tells a harsh tale of a parasite and a host�the one a whining Army goldbricker, the other a strong and decent man who is subtly chivied into becoming the sniveler's protector.

Writing with an incisiveness that recalls Conrad, Novelist Matthiessen tells a harsh tale of a parasite and a host�the one a whining Army goldbricker, the other a strong and decent man who is subtly chivied into becoming the sniveler's protector.