Word: joans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the many mysteries of Joan of Arc's meteoric career, one of the most baffling is the origin of her inspiration-her "voices," as she called them. Was she hysterical? Was she insane? No, say two British students of the Maid and her works: all the available medical evidence fits together into a neat and simple explanation that detracts nothing from Joan's greatness...
...next few years went by, Professors Hall and Ford could be said to have become more knowledgeable.... During the next summer vacation, Ford sent Hall a long letter, saying he had been reading Shaw's Saint Joan. In the epilogue, Shaw had made it clear that the world was pleased enough to have the young lady in legend and in history, but it had no desire to have her or her kind live among them. Ford ended by saying he guessed the saint and the true scholar shared the same fate...
Judge Salles and his colleagues had good reason to chuckle. Reason: the winning work was not there at all, but 3,620 miles away on two 9-ft.-8-in.-high walls at Paris' new UNESCO headquarters (see color). In a sense, the choice of Joan Miró, 65, involved some polite intramural logrolling. Both Englishman Read and Frenchman Salles are on the UNESCO art committee that commissioned the murals. "I was prepared to find something else that competed with Miró," Sir Herbert Read said, "but I didn't think for a moment the other works...
Goldilocks (book by Walter and Jean Kerr; music by Leroy Anderson; lyrics by the Kerrs and Joan Ford) takes place in 1913, in pioneer cinema days when redskins were swarming all over Fort Lee. The show itself concerns a short-on-cash, long-on-ego moviemaker and a sizzling-tongued actress he corrals for shotgun movie heroics on the eve of her society marriage. Communicating by insult, the two keep throwing knives at each other without for a long time realizing that they are actually Cupid's darts...
Married. Eric Ambler, 49, London-born movie scenarist (The Cruel Sea), topnotch writer of international-intrigue thrillers (A Coffin for Dimitrios, Cause for Alarm); and Joan Harrison, about 45, blonde, brainy TV producer (Alfred Hitchcock Presents); he for the second time, she for the first; in San Francisco...