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AMERICA HURRAH, by Jean-Claude van Itallie, erupts on the theatrical landscape, pouring a lava of satire, comment and invective on some questionable aspects of modern life. Three playlets, Interview, TV and Motel are inventively directed by Jacques Levy and Joseph Chaikin and interpreted by a flawless cast...
AMERICA HURRAH, by Jean-Claude van Itallie, erupts on the theatrical landscape, pouring a lava of satire, comment and invective over some questionable aspects of modern life. Three playlets, Interview, TV and Motel, are inventively directed by Jacques Levy and Joseph Chaikin and interpreted by a flawless cast...
Thanks to the driving tempo and inventive direction of Joseph Chaikin and Jacques Levy and the flawlessly integrated playing of a versatile cast, Playwright Van Itallie conveys an especially timely sensation, that of a world of fragmented experience so speeded up past human endurance that a man must either die laughing or go mad. America Hurrah is as lively as a sand tick. It is anguishingly funny, yet oddly poignant, and more than passing wise in the ways of today's world...
Married. Theodore Chaikin Sorensen, 36, confidant, counselor and speechwriter for John F. Kennedy from 1953 to 1963; and Sarah Ann Elbery, 31, petite Boston schoolteacher; he for the second time; in Manhattan. They met in 1958 when both worked on Kennedy's senatorial campaign in Boston, and their friendship flowered when she took a job in Washington in 1961 and accompanied Ted on summer trips to Cape...
...eleven-year experience with John F. Kennedy. Although on a smaller scale than the late President, Sorensen was also brought up on politics. His father, Christian Abraham Sorensen, rose from the Nebraska prairie sod house in which he was born to become state attorney general. His mother, Annis Chaikin Sorensen, was a convinced pacifist and feminist from a Russian-Jewish family...