Word: arcs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist functionary of Tours, was up for trial on a charge of obstructing a military train bearing arms for Indo-China. The party press hailed her as the "little angel" and the "delicate heroine of peace." Some of the comrades spoke of her as a latter-day Joan of Arc, and doubtless imagined her triumphantly burned at the stake...
...French Communists have recently been playing up Joan of Arc as a nationalist symbol of resistance to Anglo-Saxon (U.S.) influence in France. On Joan of Arc Day last May, Communist factory girls and housewives laid a wreath at the foot of Joan's statue in Paris...
...faith. The lucid, lyrical music of his 30-odd choral works, chamber pieces and ballet scores has already won him two Guggenheim fellowships and the New York Music Critics Circle Award for 1948-49. He had hit on the idea for his opera after seeing the movie Joan of Arc, thought he could supply what the movie had largely left out: Joan's "inner life...
Last week Paula refused to make her lips pop like Ingrid's-She and the other dubbers had decided to hold their stars' tongues and go on strike for higher pay. "I have only the most grandiose notions of what Bergman got for playing Joan of Arc," said Paula, "but I do know that for being her French voice I got only $148.50." The dubbers' strike leader, Actor Georges Hubert, scoffed at reports that the strike was a Communist attempt to turn off the flow of U.S. pictures to France. "We have only the old-fashioned capitalist...
Secret Orders. But one afternoon in early April top cabinet ministers held a rump meeting without the Sultan of West Borneo, sent a secret order to President Soekarno for signature. Then they went off to attend the local opening of the movie Joan of Arc...