Word: joans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JOAN STORA Omaha...
Komarov may have had a premonition of his fate. Shortly before the veteran cosmonaut entered the spacecraft, Stevens says, he handed Soviet Reporter Sergei Borzenko the book he had been reading-a biography of Joan of Arc. In a section describing the Maid of Orleans' burning at the stake, Borzenko noticed later, Komarov had underlined the following passage: "She bade her farewells and continued gazing at the clear blue sky until the final second when the black smoke blotted out that sky forever...
...dull year anyway. It hardly holds a candle to 1924, for example. That's when insecticide was introduced; Juan Gris lectured at the Sorbonne; Bloch wrote his piano quintet; Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue; Puccini, Turandot; Schoenberg, Erwartung; Forster, A Passage to India; Galsworthy, The White Monkey; Shaw, St. Joan; Mann, The Magic Mountain. It was also the year that Woodrow Wilson and Lenin died, that Hitler got out of prison, Coolidge was elected President, China, Britain and France recognized the U.S.S.R., Churchill became Chancellor of the Exchequer, and, as everyone no doubt recalls, the Turks put down the revolting...
...British are not notably enthralled with Lyndon Johnson. But when iconoclastic Director Joan Littlewood brought Barbara Garson's Mac-Bird to town, the critics threw every pan in the kitchen. After seeing the pseudo-Shakespearean parody about Johnson and the death of President Kennedy, the London Daily Mail's critic growled: "Immeasurably witless rubbish." The London Times sniffed: "It is pointless to get too indignant. The production successfully torpedoes what was already a fragile and leaky craft...
...Joan B. Pinck '50, a study of contemporary reviews of certain works and comparison with retrospective critical judgements; Sylvia A. Earle, classifying marine plants from the Caribbean; Muriel Cohen, study of urban problems; Caroline Bloomfield; developing a junior high course in medieval history...