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Word: joans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entitled to, and shall gain, equal opportunities." Refreshing as those words might have been to newly enfranchised Negroes, they were heresy to Alabama's old-line whites. And when Martin Luther King began promoting a GROW-WITH-FLOWERS bloc vote among Negroes, Lurleen began to look like Joan of Arc to anxious white supremacists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alabama: Let George Do It | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

Died. Richard Farina, 29, folk singer who, with Wife Mimi (sister of Folk Heroine Joan Baez), cut two well-received albums before writing a just-published novel on the hippies (Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me); in the crash of a speeding motorcycle, near Carmel, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 13, 1966 | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

BEEN DOWN SO LONG IT LOOKS LIKE UP TO ME, by Richard Fariña (Random House; 329 pages; $5.95), is a pot-and-peyote boiler about a supercooled campus hippie named Gnossos Pappadopoulis. Written by the brother-in-law of Folk Singer Joan Baez, the book is fashionably half-coherent, a collection of Kerouacky kinks. Gnossos turns on four times a day, calls girls "man," says "dig" a great deal, makes like the Green Hornet with cringing officials at Mentor University, rucksacks triumphantly to Mexico, Las Vegas and Cuba, knows how to hot-wire a car, plays Corelli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nosepicking Contests | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

Joyce B. Gregorian '68, of Henry House and Holliston, and Barbara H. Welch, of Concord, have won the $500 Joan Gray Untermeyer Poetry Prize for the best undergraduate poetry written at Radcliffe this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poetry Prize | 5/4/1966 | See Source »

Mary McCarthy chose character study rather than plot to get her through those seven years, and the movie has followed her example. Dottie (Joan Hackett) of Chapter 2 fame, is from Boston and decides to lose her virginity with a Greenwich Village artist. Helena (Kathleen Widdoes) is the daughter of an industrialist, sexually "neuter" and Valedictorian. Libby (Jessica Walter) is a bitch who becomes a career woman in the publishing world. Polly (Shirly Knight) runs metabolism tests because the money ran out for her doctor's education, and keeps a delightfully insane father. Priss (Elizabeth Hartman) worked for NRA, then...

Author: By Joseph A. Kanon, | Title: The Group | 4/16/1966 | See Source »

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