Word: joans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Simone: Oh, everything you're saying is true! There have not been any really great women. Maybe one Joan of Arc here, one Emily Bronte there, but no female Tolstoys, Napoleons, Buddhas. But all of this is in our past, not our future; in our social, economic, political condition, not in our bodies; in our situation, not in our stars. In this we are like other depressed groups who have also not contributed their full share to the culture of mankind. The working classes, the Negroes, the Chinese peasants. But with the liberation and the equality...
...principal roles, United Artists has rounded up a prize bouquet of star lets, including Edgar Bergen's daughter Candice (U. of Penn '67); talented, TV-trained Joan Hackett; and Poor Rich ard's Joanna Pettet, 21, a bright new face of the past Broadway season...
Clan Within. When the showdown came, the Kennedy clan was on hand in force. Watching from the Senate gallery were Teddy's wife, Joan, in a pink frock; Sister Eunice Shriver; and Bobby's wife, Ethel. Temporarily presiding over the session was Bobby himself. Taking the floor against the amendment, Dirksen asked: "If Congress can tell the states by statute this afternoon that they cannot impose a poll tax, why not tell them they cannot impose a cigarette tax or any other tax?" Democratic Leader Mansfield worried that the amendment might endanger the entire voting-rights bill...
...campus, where it once was squaresville to flip for the rock scene, it now is the wiggiest of kicks. Brenda Lee, 20, a tot-sized (4 ft. 11 in., plus five inches of hair) rockette who developed her belting delivery as a high-school cheerleader, outranks Folk Singer Joan Baez and jazz's Ella Fitzgerald on the college popularity polls. "Rock really turns everybody on," says one Princeton senior...
...WHAT A LOVELY WAR (London). Into the quicksands of death march the mind-forsaken legions of Joan Littlewood's bitter, brittle, bizarre, tragicomic descant on the asininity and hapless gallantry of World War I. The show's sentimental ballads and parade-ground tempos are coated with steely irony; the weapons are not Krupp's but Brecht...