Word: joans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mere face in the crowd when she received a bachelor of arts degree from Manhattanville College, outside New York City, in 1958. But when she was awarded her master's degree in education from Lesley College in Cambridge, Mass., Joan Kennedy, 44, seemed in a class by herself. Though she has been on her own for the past three years, Joan was joined by her immediate Kennedy clan-estranged Husband Senator Edward Kennedy, 49, Daughter Kara, 20, and Sons Teddy Jr., 19, and Patrick, 13. The new graduate's future plans: life as a single, and a career...
Listen to the new surge of self-applause. Television's Howard Cosell ranks himself as a sports commentator: "I really believe I'm the best. My relationship with the men who play the games - all games - is probably unparalleled in this country." Private Citizen Joan Kennedy assesses herself for a Ladies' Home Journal interviewer: "I have talent. I know I'm smart. I got straight A's in graduate school. I've still got my looks. I know I've got all these terrific things going for me. I mean...
...what does a Radcliffe Joan of Arc do till the day of her martyrdom? There are no prison walls on which she can mark the passing days with a bent nail; only the Harvard Coop Calendar. There is not high, slit-like window through which the sun can halo her as she sits in her cell; only the noise and clatter of Briggs Hall. There are no guards to whom she can confide her visions...
...some peculiar way, alcohol has become a convenient way to mitigate public embarrassments. Betty Ford, Joan Kennedy, Billy Carter and others have reported that their unsteady, occasionally weird behavior resulted from drinking. That sort of confession can be exemplary and thus publicly useful. But in others it can also be opportunistic. Maryland's conservative Congressman Robert Bauman pleaded not guilty to making homosexual advances to a 16-year-old boy; Bauman, with his stricken wife standing behind him - her eyes glazed with that I-am-not-here-I-am-actually-in-Chicago look - told a press conference that booze...
...constant stream of flashbulbs, the guests could make out a few familiar faces: President Bok, his hands in his pockets, chatting with Joan Mondale: John B. Anderson, the evening's featured speaker, talking to reporters and signing autographs; Art Buckwald, puffing away at a cigar...