Word: joans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tragedy in Barcelona. The excitement in Mexico City and Paris was mild compared to the roaring ole that has greeted the latest shows of 20-year-old, Manhattan-born Joan Markson, who signs herself with an Italianate flourish as "Giovannella." At her first show four months ago in Madrid, one critic wrote, "She approaches Goya . . . approximates Rembrandt . . . will have an outstanding name in the painting of our time...
...five girls, one was Joan Bart, a Radcliffe graduate student in Harvard's Russian Studies Program. A 19-year-old girl from the University of Michigan, an 18-year-old student from Scripps College, Calif., who had lived all her life on a cattle ranch, and two working girls who had attended Smith and Mount Holyoke completed the group...
William Hawthorne, the Professor of Engineering of Cambridge University, will visit in January. Nadia Boulanger, Paris music instructor; Marion Moore, poetess; Joan Bennet, literary critic, and H.S. Bennett, medieval historian, will reside in Adams in the spring...
...Harvard, McCord has found time to work at the Norfolk Prison, at the Wiltwick School for delinquents, and in the Cambridge-Somerville Project. From the latter experience, he published papers on alcoholism and Negro intelligence and is presently preparing a book based on the Project. He and his wife, Joan McCord expanded and revised his Ph. D. thesis which was published in 1956 as "Psychopathy and Delinquency...
...when Esther Costello, an eight-year-old Irish girl, finds a cache of grenades in a ruined farmhouse and accidentally detonates them, killing her mother. The explosion does the girl no actual physical harm, but the shock leaves her deaf, dumb and blind. Five years later, an American woman (Joan Crawford) with plenty of money and nothing to do-she has recently walked out on her unfaithful husband (Rossano Brazzi) -takes the child (Heather Sears) on maternal impulse, and with the help of some therapists teaches her to hear, speak and see with her hands...