Word: joan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...JOAN M. SUTTON Reading...
...book of poetry, The Colussus, was published in 1960; Ariel was published in 1965. and Uncollected Poems in 1965. Although her novel goes far towards explaining her poems, it is not an appendage; it stands on its own. Sylvia Plath's legend is as ruthless and as individualistic as Joan Didion's, But where Joan Didion's Play It As It Lavs describes nothing leading to no suicide, The Bell Jar describes every thing hilarious you and I have ever done leading to suicide. She never tells us there is nothing; she just informs us of the process of obliteration...
...Punctuality," said Louis XVIII, "is the politeness of kings." Kennedys are not kings-as no one in Bonn last week needed reminding. On tour with the Boston Pops Orchestra, Teddy Kennedy and his wife Joan (who narrates Peter and the Wolf), seemed to be late everywhere they went. Joan kept Mayor Peter Kramer and the fire department band cooling their heels for 45 minutes at the City Hall. Joan was at least an hour late for U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Rush's cocktail party. Joan was two hours late for the party given by West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel...
...with head injuries resulting from a fall from his bike. "Billy died first," said Stephens, "and I felt a need to tell his parents they were not alone in their grief. I told them about Kenneth, and after Kenneth died I introduced the two sets of parents." Adds Joan Henderson: "We found we could cry together about our boys without embarrassment...
...perambulation of our cultural landscape, Thompson finds little revelation in Los Angeles, a prime gap candidate if there ever was one. Big Sur's Esalen Institute, another potentially numinous spot, does not produce much cosmic insight either. But it does offer some memorable scenes, particularly a moment when Joan Baez disrupts a "Future of Consciousness" seminar by angrily demanding that the participants stop talking about themselves and declare their positions on Viet...