Word: joans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...times E.S.T. achieves a catharsis hardly to be believed of a musical. The hand that guides it is Joan Littlewood's; the guiding spirit is Bertolt Brecht...
...desert her limousine to trek the last block to the theater. Still, the snafu gave the locust swarm of lensmen a heyday, feasting their flashbulbs on the likes of Jean Kennedy Smith and Mrs. Winston ("CeeZee") Guest, as well as a handful of Hollywood's last duchesses. Joan Fontaine simply glowed, Jennifer Jones fluttered a huge black boa, but Pepsi-Cola's sociable Joan Crawford, 56, in her diamond tiara, outqueened them all. "Darling, you must be proud of you!" she said to Audrey at intermission...
Humphrey as majestic statesman was apparent at every platform on which he appeared Thursday night. As he sat waiting for his introduction, he would talk animatedly with Joan Kennedy or Edward McCormack, his handsome face fixed in a handsome smile, and one knew that he knew his smile was handsome and that he was appearing human and at the same time glamorously royal to the masses. As indeed...
...matter. Opening-night audiences at the Met are notorious for their detachment from the proceedings on stage. Milling in the corridors, crowding the bars, they wish everyone "Happy season, darling" and skip out early. But then came Joan Sutherland singing the title role, and the detachment turned to enchantment...
With perverse sentimentality, posterity often remembers history's losers more fondly than the luckier or more competent heroes who beat them. But nothing like this Joan of Arc or Mary Queen of Scots effect has occurred in the case of Jefferson Davis. The public memory retains his name, but his deeds and character are dimmer than Hannibal's. Perhaps it is because Davis refused to let himself be forgiven, and went on proclaiming the Tightness of the South's cause until his death in 1889. Or it may be that the popular taste for gallant losers...