Word: joans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Giant Abstraction. Julie would be the last to agree with the Barrymore boast -but the dare was exciting. Last week on Broadway she took it. She opened as Joan of Arc in Lillian Hellman's adaptation of The Lark from the French of Jean Anouilh. Her previous roles, no matter how complex, had kept within the limits of "colloquial drama." She had played people of life size in a theater of the norm, and she had only to cut herself to make her characters bleed. Joan, however, was not merely a human being, into whose feelings an actress...
...first lecture, accompanied by movies, was presented by a Mrs. Joan Gaynor in Phillips Brooks House last Saturday night to a small student crowd. The presentation immediately brought criticism from the Boston representative of the National Student Association. Earlier this year the NSA wrote letters to all representatives specifically warning them that their attendance at the festival would provide material for Communist propaganda...
...while the tribunal cleared Joan of the charges of heresy and diabolic inspiration, it could not erase the fact that she was a devilish nuisance. She patronized kings and she lectured bishops. She set her private visions above the judgment of ecclesiastics. The record suggests that, very likely, even without English pressure and unjust judges, the fire would have been her inevitable end. For, unfortunately, saints have a way of being insufferable until they are good and dead...
...early September 1949, few people in New York City could have looked forward to the future more eagerly than 21-year-old Joan Dunn. A graduate of The Bronx's College of Mount St. Vincent, she was beginning her career as a teacher of English, and as she walked toward the Brooklyn high school to which she had been assigned, she felt an "excitement in the air, that particular sharp-pencil, clean-copybook, brand-new-eraser crackle in the ether that made me walk a little faster...
Four years later, Joan Dunn quit teaching forever. Last week she told why, in a new book called Retreat from Learning (McKay; $3)-a disturbing glimpse of big-city high-school life at its worst, and an outraged indictment of modern educational theories from one who has seen them in action...