Word: joan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...already well known for her last poems, which are brilliant songs of self-destruction, the ne plus ultra of confessional verse. The Bell Jar is a marvelously unself-conscious confessional novel dashed off before such documents were in vogue. Now, however, it is as if the likes of Joan Didion have merely been sweeping the stage for Sylvia's ghostly comeback. Like the Lady Lazarus of her poem, she is a virtuoso of death. As she wrote: "You could say I have a call...
Rorlyn G. Duam of 32 Irving Street. Cambridge; Katherine Fletcher of Dunster House and Seattle, Washington; Joan M. Friedman of Currier House and Manhasset, New York; Ann M. Kinder of Helden Green, Cambridge; Naney Knowlton of Currier House and Darien, Connecticut...
...million marble-and-glass national cultural center were 3,750 paying guests ($100 each; $40 for those under 35). Together they constituted a gallery from Camelot and Nixonian Washington. Matriarch Rose, 80, led the Kennedys, including the Sargent Shrivers, the Stephen Smiths and Pat Kennedy Lawford. Joan Kennedy played piano with Bandleader Peter Duchin. Ethel Kennedy appeared with Singer Andy Williams. President Nixon was represented by David and Julie Eisenhower; they escorted Mamie Eisenhower, whose husband signed a bill authorizing such a center 13 years ago. The President's men mingled with their predecessors in the cavernous riverside foyer...
...Joan Ganz Cooney, L.H.D., president of the Children's Television Workshop, executive producer of Sesame Street...
Beside this terrible banality, Keneally's suggestion that family is another name for incest seems positively matter-of-fact. Further Keneally theories: an exceptional child is doomed to play Joan of Arc-martyr-to parents, who compulsively burn as witch that truthful spirit in the child that sees the beast in its elders and, worse, announces it. "Parents, for all their preaching and threats, turn out to be the children," the remarkable Barbara observes. This freedom to speculate, Keneally may be saying, is the only freedom...