Word: joans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hilles Writing Center has been flooded with calls and visitors since its opening a week ago, Joan L. Bolker '60, preceptor of Expository Writing and one of the three staff members at the Writing Center, said yesterday...
...Dallas Civic Opera, a kind of tumbleweed La Fenice, since the late 1950s has been the place where Americans first saw such stars as Joan Sutherland, Jon Vickers and Placido Domingo in opera. Vickers returns to help open the season Nov. 5 in the rarely heard Samson by Handel. The up-and-coming Greater Miami Opera Association does not hit its stride until the sun seekers' stampede from the Northeast begins, but in its emphasis on big names and traditional works, it sometimes outdoes Dallas. Miami will open with Cesare Siepi in Boris Godunov (Jan. 17). Later...
...blame us, we tried hard. No criteria for inclusion are offered. Why Calamity Jane and not Annie Oakley? Why Lucille Ball but not Bette Davis? Why Helena Rubinstein and not Diana Vreeland? And for that matter, why Joan Baez at all? And why is the most written about and talked about women of the present day--Jackie Onassis--not even mentioned once? Perhaps to make room for Shirley Temple and Fannie Farmer. This nit-picking, where-is-my-favorite reaction is the natural result of Life's muddied intentions. These are not the most famous American women (who the hell...
...Fritz says I never make a decision without consulting him. He's right. I consult -and then do what I want to." When the Mondales decided to buy a dog, the Senator said okay, so long as it was small, short-haired and male. Joan came home with a female collie...
...Joan recalls that at the time Fritz withdrew from the race in 1974, "I had cleared my life. I had resigned from volunteer boards, and I had organized my household so I would always be free to campaign, and there I sat in my best run-ning-for-President red suit and said to myself, 'I am unemployed.' " Now she is planning to get out that red suit again -and she is already thinking how the wife of the Vice President could use her influence to help the arts...