Word: hurrah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...networks for poor programming and feeble attempts to educate. Then television finally takes a giant step forward, and gives audience-participation tests in important fields of interest. And what is your reaction? You give a mixed, silly, and asinine review [Feb. 4]. I say give Mr. Friendly a hurrah for a good, honest attempt to make television the useful tool it was intended...
...Ailing Mike Quill, the invective-hurling president of the Transport Workers Union, probably made his Last Hurrah. Faced with division and opposition within his own union, he seemed to hunger for a final epic fight, openly sought imprisonment. "He wanted to go to jail," A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany noted with a wry jab, "and I wouldn't do anything to take away from his happiness." At week's end Quill was released from Bellevue Hospital and entered a private hospital, a sad and feckless parody of the youth who fought in the Irish rebellion. Worse still...
...Moreover, Quill, a sick man who had had several heart attacks and slept with an oxygen tank by his bedside, was under heavy pressure from his union to win bigger wage hikes than he had been settling for. He realized that this might be his Last Hurrah...
...failure of the novel is that the central characters are interesting neither as individual persons, nor as case studies of their generation. Not special enough for the former role nor representative enough for the latter, they're just dull. One really can't get himself to give a jolly hurrah about. Mary's search for happiness or Betsy's search for unhappiness, and after reading along for a while, it soon becomes plain how a bored psychiatrist feels...
...builders claim that for $1,000 extra, they can build this kind of soundproofing into a new $20,000 house. For that kind of money, the public's response to low-decibel domiciles is likely to be a loud hurrah...