Word: joans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Writing Center will offer a mini-course in March on criticism and evaluation of student writing for Faculty members, Joan S. Bolker, a preceptor in Expository Writing and an instructor at the center, said yesterday...
...then wife Sara plays a nonentity called Clara. Singers Ronnie Hawkins and Ronee Blakley appear as Bob and Sara, while Joan Baez traipses around as a mysterious "woman in white." Allen Ginsberg and Sam Shepard turn up in equally transparent disguises...
...theater does not survive on its masterpieces but between them. Much the same is true of Shaw. His finest works, Major Barbara, Heartbreak House and Pygmalion, are rarely performed. Conversely, scarcely a season passes when the overestimated Saint Joan and Candida do not show up on some theater's docket. One could hardly underestimate The Devil's Disciple. Shaw himself thought that this 1897 play would eventually be considered a "threadbare popular melodrama...
...individual spectator chooses to perceive. Elsewhere in his book "The Bride and the Bachelors," Tomkins quotes Cunningham as saying that "if the dancer dances, everything is there. The meaning is there if that's what you want." And in a 1970 interview with the Boston Sunday Herald's Joan B. Cass, Cunningham explained...
...Shaw, and he skewers them with paradox and irony. As a vegetarian, he amusingly pictures his funeral procession with his casket followed by the herds of cows, pigs and fowl that he has spared, all in white ties. He eulogizes Christ as a nonconformist and identifies with St. Joan as an "insufferable" know...