Word: joans
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...late 1960s Joan Ganz Cooney, a producer at a New York City public television station, became convinced that the medium could be used for early childhood education...
...audible. Nixon also had the alarming habit of talking about himself in the third person, which is an inverted variation on talking to oneself. In talking to oneself, one invents an interlocutor; Nixon, speaking of himself in the third person, in effect erased an interlocutor--himself! Consider another variation: Joan of Arc. It was not so much that she talked out loud to herself as that she listened intently to the voices in her head...
...Most of us have known that, eventually,Harvard and Radcliffe will merge," said concernedalumna Joan H. Burns '56. "I just want Radcliffeto be the bride with the largest dowry so she willbring some clout to the marriage...
...cirque Calder that got the young American full entry to the Parisian art world. This charming piece of performance art was one of the small sights of Paris between 1926 and 1930; it was seen and enjoyed by a whole roster of artists, designers and architects--Joan Miro and Fernand Leger, Le Corbusier and Isamu Noguchi and, most important for the eventual direction of Calder's own work, Piet Mondrian...
Leonard C. Alkins, president of the Boston NAACP, joined with presidents of surrounding branches--along with Reverend Charles R. Stith, national president of the Organization for a New Equality and Dr. Joan Wallace-Benjamin, president of the Eastern Massachusetts Urban League--in demanding that Boston Magazine publicly apologize for the headline...