Word: hurrahs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...America Hurrah, by Jean-Claude van Itallie, is a three-playlet wedding between pop art and the theater of cruelty. It is an off-Broadway trip through an air-conditioned blightmare towards an icy emptiness at the core of American life, the land of the Deepfreeze and the home of the rave, of the neon smile and the plastic heart...
...Hurrah for Military Historian S.L.A. Marshall's article on the horrible reporting of the Viet Nam war [Oct. 21]. The A.P. reports we get here are disgraceful and disgusting, to say the very best! A red-hot poker for all but one or two Viet Nam war reporters...
...that followed was un like anything that Lyndon Johnson had ever seen in 28 years of politicking. As the King and the President drove past in a long yellow Mercedes, with Sirikit and Lady Bird following in a yellow Daimler, schoolchildren daintily waved flags and cried softly, "Cha yo [hurrah]." Not once did Lyndon yield to the temptation to stop the show and press some flesh. In contrast to the placard-waving scenes from Melbourne to Manila, there were no demonstrations. "Such an act," said General Praphas Charusathien, the Interior Minister, "is against...
With each new book he writes, any conscientious author tries to surpass his best previous performance. In the case of Edwin O'Connor, his best previous performance was The Last Hurrah (TIME, Feb. 13, 1956), an unforgettable portrait of an Irish politician doomed, like the torchlight procession, to extinction. O'Connor's next two novels, The Edge of Sadness and I Was Dancing, fell progressively short of Hurrah's high mark. All in the Family falls shorter still...
...Hurrah for the South Boston high school students and their handling of Vietniks [April...