Word: unitarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like Method Acting. The editor-once described as looking like a Scots Unitarian impersonating Mephistopheles-is perfectly matched to his task, and Madcap Mac is balanced by Dour Donald. Parody, he makes clear, though a laughing matter, is serious. Writes Macdonald: "I enjoy it as an intuitive kind of literary criticism, shorthand for what 'serious' critics must write out at length. It is Method Acting, since a successful parodist must live himself, imaginatively, into his parody...
When Bobby Kennedy took over the direction of his brother's campaign in mid-1959, Ted Sorensen retreated behind the scenes as Jack's administrative assistant, top speechwriter and strategist. (Unitarian Sorensen drafted Kennedy's principal speeches defending his Roman Catholic faith from Protestant attack.) "I want to keep Ted with me wherever I go in this campaign," said Kennedy. "You need somebody whom you can trust implicitly...
...weeks after the convention, Kennedy and his faithful, brainy aide, Ted Sorensen, a Nebraska Unitarian, sat down and plotted the Senator's course toward the White House...
...Would Resign." Once in command of the microphone, Kennedy wasted no time getting to his point. "I believe in an America," said he, reading word for word from a five-page statement drafted by himself and Speechwriter Ted Sorensen (a Unitarian), "where the separation of church and state is absolute-where no Catholic prelate would tell the President, should he be a Catholic, how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote." He urged the clergymen to "judge me on the basis of my record of 14 years in Congress-on my declared stands...
Died. Ernest Boyd MacNaughton, 79, president of the Portland, Ore. First National Bank from 1932 to 1947 and its board chairman ever since, who was moderator of the American Unitarian Associa tion from 1950 to 1952, president of the Oregonian Publishing Company from