Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both boys are in love with the same beautiful blonde (Joan Caulfield). She admires Fred's hoofing, as who does hot? But no lady could be expected to hold out against Bing's crooning. Married, singer and girl plunge into a peculiar marital conflict. Bing makes his living by buying & selling successful nightclubs. He plainly enjoys his work and does well enough at it to provide the little woman with striking Edith Head gowns and the smartest interiors that Paramount's art department can whip together. But Joan is terribly depressed by it all. Bing...
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...
Flesh & Blood. It is Chantal's own obsession with gladness and light that is her undoing. Her moments of spiritual illumination are regarded by those around her as a nervous disorder, and, like Saint Joan, she is forced to submit to questioning. When her first inquisitor, her hysterical father, uncovers nothing but his own cowardice, a psychiatrist is called in. The psychiatrist emerges from the ordeal fit to be put in a strait jacket. Then a perspicacious Catholic abbé, who has secretly doubted the existence of God for many years, is summoned-and finds himself newly inspired with...
Unlike Saint Joan, Chantal repels her inquisitors. Like Saint Joan, she cannot protect herself against brute force, and her murder by her father's tormented chauffeur (to whom the spectacle of innocence is intolerable) brings the book to a bloody...
...Caesar and Cleopatra. 5. Saint Joan...