Word: joans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gertrud. The young art of film has produced few enough old masters, but any cinematic pantheon must make a place for Carl Dreyer, the Danish director whose reputation rests on a handful of somber, infrequent movie classics, among them The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) and Day of Wrath (1943). Gertrud, made in 1964, is more museum piece than masterpiece, for this muted and stately study of a woman's quest for perfect love already seems to have been gathering dust for decades. It challenges the ingenuity of coterie critics to prove that any Dreyer movie will gleam...
...literature: he was a true original, unmistakably and incorrigibly American. But critics have endlessly speculated on the astonishing and unfathomable range of a man who could address himself to such disparate subjects as frontier humor (Roughing It), the adventures of youth (Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), chastity (Joan of Arc), obscenity (1601, a privately published Twain excursion into four-letter Tudor conversation), and nihilistic despair (What...
...POWDER MAN by Joan Williams. 312 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
Other seniors initiated were Joan S. Latty of Durham, N.C. (Romance Languages and Literature); Margaret A. Noether of Short Hills, N.J. (Chemistry); and Ellen Frost Ojha of Cambridge (Social Studies...
Also, Lucy G. Quimby of Washington, D.C. (History); Neva G. Rockefeller of New York City (English); Lois J. Schiffer of Washington, D.C. (Social Studies); Judith Temkin of Baltimore, Md. (Anthropology); Laurel Blossom Thomas of Cleveland, Ohio (English); Joan H. Weens of Atlanta, Ga. (Biochemical Sciences); and Laura J. White horn of New Rochelle, N.Y. (History and Literature...