Word: joans
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...