Word: hurrah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This continual counting and transfer of ballots-both for Council and school committee-goes on in an atmosphere somewhat akin to a blend of a ladies'coffee circle, Suffolk Downs, and Chapter 7 of The Last Hurrah...
...money and talent alone. Zest, hard work, devotion and love must be present. One woman in New York epitomizes those qualities: Ellen Stewart, the indefatigable doyenne of off-off-Broad way's experimental Café La Mama. Out of La Mama have come Jean-Claude van Itallie (America Hurrah!), Tom O'Horgan, (director of Futz and Hair), Sam Shepard (the 27-year-old author of Red Cross and Chicago), Leonard Melfi (Jack and Jill) and a host of others. Ellen Stewart announces the evening's program by ringing a homely cowbell. As long as Ellen rings...
These are an unspecified work by Pirandello and two evenings of one act plays, America Hurrah and Morning, Noon and Night...
...America Hurrah is Jean Claude van Itallie's amazing trio of improvisational-styled sketches about the vulgar mechanization of American life...
...eight: Wynn Chamberlain, paint er and producer-director of erotic films; Maurice Girodias, founder-editor of the Olympia Press, which published J. P. Donleavy, William Burroughs, and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita; Sally Kirkland, actress in several erotic and/or nude plays; Jacques Levy, director of Oh! Calcutta!, America Hurrah and Scuba Duba; Charles Rembar, the attorney who successfully defended Lady Chatterley's Lover, Fanny Hill and Tropic of Cancer against obscenity charges; Terry Southern, author of Candy; Kenneth Tynan, British author, critic and organizer of Oh! Calcutta!; and Dr. Ernest Vandenhaag, New York University psychoanalyst and professor of social...