Word: joans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest arguer there has ever been . . . marvelous over a short distance; but he could not sustain an argument for more than a paragraph ... On all serious questions Shaw came down firmly on the side of the stronger . . . Even when he glorified a heretic he took care to choose Joan of Arc-someone safely canonized and not associated with any really dangerous idea . . . Shaw was never unhappy; and therefore he was never happy either. He knew only pleasure, a very different thing. At the end of his life Shaw confessed that he stood for Nothing...
Next week's issue of the Summer News--the last one of the year--will come out somewhat later than usual on Thursday morning. It will thus be able to include a review of The Cambridge Drama Festival's Saint Joan, which opens in Sanders Theatre next Wednesday evening. The paper can be expected to appear well before lunch time at the Union and at other regular distribution points...
...most suitable reading for Benedictine monks. Butler banned him. presumably for his leanings toward semi-Pelagianism (heretical insistence on man's perfectibility without God's help), but Attwater prefers to call him "anti-Augustinian." Other newcomers are those canonized since Butler's day-among them Joan of Arc, Terese of Lisieux, Pope St. Pius X, Mother Cabrini (first U.S. citizen to be canonized), Father Isaac Jogues and seven other French Jesuit missionaries martyred by Indians in Canada and New York...
Crag to Crag. In Wauwatosa, Wis., Mrs. Joan Buge, 50, was fined $35 for negligent operation of a car and $15 for disorderly conduct after she drove away from an accident scene, fled from the police station as she was being booked, was fished out of a drugstore phone booth two blocks away, leaped out of a squad car on the way to the county jail when it stopped at a railroad crossing, lay down on the tracks until three patrolmen got her back in the car, clung to the side of the car at the jail...
...Radio Workshop (Fri. 8:30 p.m., CBS). The Eternal Joan, with excerpts from Anatole France, G. B. Shaw, Mark Twain, Voltaire...