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...great was the excitement before the single Royal Albert Hall performance of Arthur Honegger's stage oratorio, Joan of Arc at the Stake, that the Observer compared it to the time in September 1968 when Pianist Daniel Barenboim was warned that he was going to be shot during a concert. The big attraction, however, was not murder; the oratorio was bringing together the professional talents of the recently married lovers Mia Farrow and Andre Previn, she as Joan, he as conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, the Ambrosian Opera Chorus and a children's choir. The critics were...
...Though half of the members agreed to see her, Francoise noted wryly, "I was received with the exquisite politeness one reserves for one's inferiors. Privately, my adversaries would say to me: 'You'd be right for the Academy if you were Colette or Joan of Arc...
...Abraham Lincoln (151), Thomas Jefferson (72), George Washington (66). Also-rans: Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci, Mahatma Gandhi, William Shakespeare, Albert Schweitzer. Visitors to Madame Tussaud's waxworks in London voted Churchill the Hero of All Time, ahead of Jesus, John F. Kennedy, Admiral Nelson and Joan of Arc. As Most Hated and Feared, the waxwork freaks voted Hitler and Mao Tse-tung one and two. President Nixon ranked fourth. Three tied for fifth place-Prime Minister Edward Heath, Dracula and Vice President Spiro Agnew...
...said that the idea "does not shock me." How about the miracles normally required for canonization? Merely an innovation of modern times, said Danielou. More important was the ability "to practice virtues with a certain degree of heroism." In any case there was no particular hurry. Joan of Arc did not make it for 489 years...
...sense, Yale was on a communal ego trip. It was pulled together, like a wagon train circling up before an attack, by a sense of persecution. Suddenly, everyone was united and Brewster became Joan of Arc, leading the new community against the infidels...