Word: joans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visionary in Bajour, which has been woven from Joseph Mitchell's New Yorker look at the city's swindling gypsies. The season's only imported musical will be Oh What a Lovely War, a savage but moving World War I satire directed by London's Joan Littlewood...
...husband who is cuckolded by a test tube. Leslie Stevens, who wrote The Champagne Complex, plays the Oedipus complex for yucks in The Mother Image. The Iris Murdoch-J. B. Priestley farce A Severed Head, is a game of fast sex tennis from London; the players will include Joan Fontaine, Lee Grant and Jessica Walter. Divorce, American style, is viewed from the male standpoint in The Odd Couple, by Neil Simon, who scored heavily with last season's Barefoot in the Park; Mike Nichols will direct...
...entirety, are a rung-by-rung account of that ascent. There were no mysteries about it, and De Gaulle makes none. He has been accused of melodrama, egocentricity and arrogance, but his memoirs are written in an eloquently understated, supremely lucid style. As to the familiar gibe about his Joan of Arc complex, le grand Charles has never believed that he or his beloved France had any special claim to divine protection. True, he was superbly, even illogically confident. But above all else, De Gaulle has al ways been a realist. In his serene, eminently aristocratic view of human affairs...
...Washington by the end of January-assuming that he wins reelection, but there's not much doubt of that. At a press conference, Teddy's not-so-secret weapon burst into a brilliant, relieved smile. "I hope to do some campaigning for him," said Joan Kennedy...
...wryly exaggerated Silver Dagger Song, she displayed occasional flashes of bitter humor ("This is a sort of 'Happy Birthday, Mississippi' song," she said, introducing Hey, Nelly Nelly). More important, she exhibited a fine facility for dramatic phrasing and a rich, bell-clear alto voice stronger than Joan Baez' and in some ways more interesting. Her ecstatic audience was not surprised, for Judy Collins only proved in Newport last week what her legions of album-buying fans have known for some time -that she is a mere maid of constant sorrow no longer but a major contender...