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Interests: Save at least one line for alist in series of avocational interests such as,"Reading, playing guitar, running, and choralsinging." Even a brief list rounds out yourpresentation and may establish an initial bond ofcommon interest with the reader...
...time national Greco Roman and freestyle wrestling champion: tunner up in the 1981 Greco-Roman world championships: *alist for the United states 1984 Olympic wrestling team sounds like tun right...
...public. He was more interested in Joan the soldier as an embodiment of France, and most interested of all in Joan the revolutionary sounding the first, heady, rebel call to arms of insurrectionary mass man. Using his own hyphenated emphases, Shaw describes her as a "protestant" and a "nation-alist." Joan protests against the authority of the church in favor of the individual conscience. She subverts the authority of the feudal aristocracy by proclaiming the supremacy of the nation-state. It is the love of democracy, not the love of God, which binds Joan's commoner-soldiers...
...beauty, exists in the eye of the beholder. There are as many Joans as there are actresses who play her and audiences who see her. But what was Shaw's personal notion of Joan? Using his own inflective emphases, he describes her as a "protestant" and a "nation-alist." She protests against the authority of the church represented by the Archbishop of Rheims (Max Helpmann) in favor of the individual conscience. She subverts the authority of the lords temporal and their feudal privileges by proclaiming the supremacy of the nation-state. Her real visions, then, are of the dawn...
Nowhere is felt the heavy hand of alist realism". Rather there is careful attention to realistic detail, as in the first long shot of the old country house--with its peeling paint, creaking doors and evanescent charm. Even the interjection of pictures of denuded forest lands and starving children are in context. They portray the stark contrasts between the idle gentry and the destitute peasantry which underly Chekhov's sense of a passing...