Word: arcs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moneyman is Jacques Coeur, royal financier of Charles VII (the weak Charles of Joan of Arc's day). Joan has long since been burned at the stake in Rouen, but the wicked English still hold the city, and one of Jacques' jobs is to turn them out. Another is to find Charles a new mistress. Along a country road comes golden-haired Valerie Maret, beautiful in her tender innocence and tattered cloak. "By St. Martin of Tours," cries Jacques. "Remarkable! There can be no doubt about it. Yes, my argus-eyed Nicolas, this...
Gunther starts his zip-clip saga in California, the Golden State ("ripe, golden, yeasty"), swings a great northeasterly arc across the Middle West to the Atlantic, drops south into the Cotton Belt, winds up down Texas-New Mexico-Arizona way, scattering his judgments as he goes. Samples...
...Department does not think that all U.S. elms will die of disease, as did nearly all chestnut trees a generation ago. It does believe that the Gothic elm avenues in many towns will disappear, and it advises city landscapers that elms arc poor investment...
...really Ingrid Bergman's evening-her first on Broadway since 1940-for Maxwell Anderson has written not so much a play as something playable. But it is enough to call forth all that is charming, serene and radiantly childlike in Miss Bergman, who, like the Joan of Arc she portrays, is a kind of presence...
Saint & Symbol. Joan of Arc, France's patron saint-who was persuaded by her inquisitors to deny her visionary powers-has long served Bernanos as a symbol of Republican France. Joy's heroine, Chantal de Clergerie, is a much-modified Joan, facing present-day inquisitors in modern dress...