Word: joans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amorality. Who could seem sweeter than Joan? When she steps off the plane from Denver to meet her fiance, she looks like the all-American girl, and any bystander would guess that her soul is as spotless as her nylon underwear is sure to be. Carl Dickson, a young ad man with thoughts that seem old for his age, has decided to marry Joan because, at 26, he is already suffering from the roué's punishment: boredom with compulsive conquest, disgust with predictable passion...
...history also shows that Japanese women strongly resented being turned into mindless dolls who could achieve nothing except by yielding gracefully, as the bamboo bends before the gale. There have been few Joan of Arcs or Molly Pitchers in the annals of Japan. Even the brilliant Lady Murasaki, who wrote the famed Tale of Genji early in the 11th century, felt it necessary to conceal her accomplishments. The only heroic-sized woman known to the Japanese is the legendary Empress Jingo, who supposedly conquered Korea in A.D. 200-but Koreans indignantly assert that absence of records proves she never existed...
...modern classic, Juno and the Paycock is fashioned around characters who escape the last-act curtain and become dramatic immortals like Hamlet, Tartuffe, and St. Joan. Captain Boyle, the strutting Paycock, is a Homeric boozer, braggart and whine. With a sea-rolling gait and a gravelly brogue, Melvyn Douglas makes him an amiably puckish buffoon but scarcely a Dublin Falstaff. O'Casey's Juno has a spiny tongue for her shiftless husband, but she is also an Earth Mother of Sorrows. Her unmarried daughter becomes pregnant; her son loses an arm to the British and his life...
Divorced. Otto Preminger, 52, Vienna-born Hollywood producer-director (Saint Joan, The Moon Is Blue): by Mary Gardner Preminger, 40, his second wife, who punctuated a crossfire of adultery charges with the information that Preminger's temper is so hot that he sometimes gets down on all fours and beats his head on the floor; after seven years of marriage, no children; in Hollywood...
Last Sunday evening the two young ladies of 47 Mt. Auburn St. removed the tables and hid the cups to make rooms for some 150 chairs and a platform for folksingers Bill Wood and Joan Baez. From the management's point of view, the evening was a success--standing room only and only one visit from Cambridge's Finest. And from the audience's somewhat partisan point of view the evening was great...