Word: joans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Diet and Health, by Lulu Hunt Peters, ruled the nonfiction list; Shaw's St. Joan made eighth place. In fiction, Edna Ferber's So Big was that big-but E. M. Forster couldn't make the first ten with A Passage to India. The 1925 fiction list gave first place to A. Hamilton Gibbs's Soundings, while Lewis' Arrowsmith took seventh place. But even then, Scott Fitzgerald's reputation was not strong enough to install The Great Gatsby among the top ten. Also missing: Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy...
...Italian, Keith Baxter is droll in the best and worst sense of that awful word. The girl, Jennifer Hillary, pleasantly undercuts Baxter's greasiness and has a tolerable delivery in the fine old Joan Greenwood tradition. But Robert Reed as the American makes nothing of a vaguely interesting character; the best that can be said for him is that he has changed since The Defenders. Finally Betsy von Furstenberg has received such prominent credit in the program for her two-second walk-on that further comment would constitute overkill...
...rampaging heyday of the Red Guards, their chief cheerleader, den mother and Joan of Arc was Chiang Ching, the fourth Mrs. Mao Tse-tung. A onetime movie actress from Shanghai, she clearly enjoyed her sudden role in the limelight after years of obscurity at Mao's side. The part, however, proved all too brief. Now that Mao has called off the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and sent the Red Guards back to school, Mrs. Mao has vanished from Peking's rostrums and podiums. "Hens must not cackle too much," Mao reportedly crowed to his male colleagues...
...Joan Crawford, who will be 60 years old on March 23, still has as pretty a set of gams as any actress in films. She displays them right up to the pelvis in the costume she wears as ringmistress and owner of an English circus, in which a killer at large perpetrates a parlay of improbable murders. One high-wire artist is garroted by his wire, another is skewered on a bed of bayonets, the manager gets a tent spike neatly through the noggin, and a Lady-Who-Gets-Sawed-in-Half gets sawed in half. In between, the usual...
Last year Diana Sands played the protagonist in Robert Lowell's Phaedra with Philadelphia's Theater of the Living Arts and failed to be consumed by passion, as in Joan she fails to be consumed by faith. Like the founders of the Negro Ensemble, she has publicly deplored "the wall" most Negro performers face. With indubitable talent and spunk, she has proved that the wall can be scaled. Yet she is encouraging herself, or being encouraged, as a Negro, to attempt parts for which she currently lacks the size, range and maturity as an actress...