Word: joans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Serving as Honorary Chairwoman was Joan Kennedy, who headed the list of noteworthies including professors John Kenneth Galbraith. James S. Ackerman, Fogg Director Daniel S. Robbins, former Brandeis Rose Art Gallery Director William Seitz, former Director of the Museum of Fine Arts Perry Rathbone, Boston's First Lady Kathy White, art patron Elma Lewis, and filmmaker Frederick Wiseman. Some of these sponsors donated works to be sold in the auction, like an antique instrument given by former President of Radcliffe Mary Bunting, while others helped publicize the event. But the real organization job rested with chairwoman collector Nataile Klebenov...
...Joan Keenan. Co-Master of north House, said that the number of men there had already exceeded the one-to-one ration hoped for at Radcliffe, she would not approve transfers which would bring more men into the House...
...fleet of vintage cars, old houses and cute hints in the dialogue ("You don't want to start World War II, do you?") are supposed to provide period authenticity. Only '30s Star Joan Blondell really does, in a too-brief cameo as Banyon's matronly chum. But even here the show blows its own cover. Forster finds Blondell huddled over her wooden radio, tearfully listening to the abdication speech of Edward VIII. It is a neat trick. Edward abdicated a year before the series is supposed to take place...
...another bit, Ernestine complains to Joan Crawford that she was robbed of a dime by a Pepsi-Cola machine. "I want it back, all ten cents of it," she informs Crawford, a highly publicized member of Pepsi's board of directors. Unless she gets it, Ernestine promises, Pepsi's phones will be ripped out a six-pack at a time. "You don't understand," she tells anyone who disputes her authority. "This is the telephone company. We are not subject to city, state, or federal legislation. We are omnipotent...
...Union Square) and invite 10,000 for a musicale? Where else would Jesus Freaks mingle with bankers and hard hats to watch Fafner the Dragon chase Wagner's Rhinemaidens and the clowns from I Pagliacci on specially constructed mini-stages? Who else but Adler could persuade Prima Donna Joan Sutherland to brave both the crowd and the city's infamous outdoor air-conditioning and sing Ah fors' è lui and Sempre libera from Verdi's La Traviata? Introduced by his Honor Joseph Alioto, the statuesque ("La Stupenda"), redheaded Joan beamed upon her vast audience and remarked...