Word: joans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orchestra did its best playing of the evening in The Triumph of St. Joan Symphony by Norman Dello Joio. Here they showed a substantial and well-balanced orchestral tone; although occasionally rough, at its best it was rich and exciting. The symphony is an outstanding American work. The three movements follow the story of Joan of Arc as Maid, Warrior, and Saint. The dramatic intent of the music is emphasized by an instrumentation including bass drum, kettle drums, snare drum, cymbals, and bells. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra gave it a reading that clearly showed the group's improvement...
...confident heavy crew of the afternoon will be Bill Leavitt's un defeated freshman eight. This week in time train this crew defeated the varsity by nearly half a length and the jv's by by more that two lengths. So far this season the Yardlings have not given Joan than a length to any comparable crew during its two races. Leavitt will row the same boat which has defeated M.I.T., Syracuse, Princeton, and B.U. Race time...
Many such productions, like "Saint Joan of the Stock Yards," and "The Rise of the City of Mahogany," were sharply cynical social criticisms. Mare Blitzstein translated one of these, "The Threepenny Opera," whose original script was by Brecht with score by Kurt Weill. This take-off on "The Beggar's Opera" employs such epic techniques as a blackout before songs, then a spot-light on one character who sings about the action and its implications. If the actor doesn't clarify the situation, there are placards on stage explaining what is being sung...
...Trial Offer. In Media, Pa., Magazine Solicitors Nita Eubank and Joan Doyle were charged with larceny and false pretenses after detectives testified that Pig Farmer Stanley Blosinski had signed three checks for $1,752, ordering enough magazines "to last him 150 years...
...sects say they are religious; one is political. Cao Dai is a mixture of Christianity, Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism with its own Pope and cardinals, and a Vatican headquarters 55 miles northwest of Saigon. Cao Dai has an expanding pantheon that includes Clemenceau, Victor Hugo and Joan of Arc and, in nomination pending his death, Sir Winston Churchill. Its Pope, Pham Cong Tac, was formerly a Saigon customs clerk. Hoa Hao is a rowdy sect of dissident Buddhists professing its belief in abstinence and prayer. Its founder, the late Huynh Phu So, augmented his fame as a healer when...