Word: joans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most enterprising in the country (despite its short, three-week season) or because the production of the all but forgotten Handel work showed a nice Texas feeling for musical antiques. Above all, the evening served to frame the long-awaited U.S. debut of Australian-born Soprano Joan Sutherland, one of opera's fastest-rising new stars...
...dramatic task of portraying a knight who, bewitched by a Circe-like enchantress, has forgotten his past but is gradually regaining his memory. British Mezzo Monica Sinclair, also making her U.S. debut, displayed a fierce, darkly colored voice, matched at every turn by the other principals-U.S. Soprano Joan Marie Moynagh, Italy's Luigi Alva and Nicola Zaccaria. The star of the evening, though, was Sutherland, and she amply lived up to the reputation that had preceded her (TIME, June 13). Her range was wide, secure and even, her tone warm and sparkling. Her trill, as one critic...
...novel, runs words together and sometimes employs phonetic spellings. Others see in Zazie a device of savage social satire. Says New Wave Movie Director Louis (Les Amants) Malle: "She's actually the angel come to announce the destruction of Babylon." Still others have compared her to everyone from Joan of Arc (defending popular virtues against monarchists with Napoleonic delusions) to Lolita. In fact, Zazie is less of a Lolita than a Parisian Pollyanna, for she is a warmhearted fille, completely uninvolved in the sordid sex life that she is always talking about...
...time passed, the park became a mishmash of changing tastes: there were Roman gods, a Joan of Arc, a majestically cloaked Saint-Gaudens Pilgrim, a copy of Rodin's naked Thinker. Then in 1913 the wealthy Mrs. Ellen Phillips Samuel, daughter of a Philadelphia iron tycoon, left in her will a trust fund to be used to buy "statuary emblematical of the history of America." Emblem No 1 was a sturdy Icelandic Viking named Thorfinn Karlsefni; after him came a procession of American types-a Ploughman, an Immigrant, a Slave, a Miner. Finally in 1950 the city decided...
...means an impersonal one. Who else but De Gaulle could lead France in this fashion? If there is any one else, the General does not name him. Implicit in his entire work is the assumption that he alone is France's Man of Destiny; that, like Joan of Arc, he is unique and irreplaceable...