Word: joshua
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Those who were a little slow catching the jokes of the cantatas' German libretto have their chance for the first laugh by recognizing a stirring processional as "I Wanna Hold Your Hand." The two Beatle cantatas were both arranged by Joshua Rivkin; one became famous on the Elektra album "The Baroque Beatles Book," and the other premiered -- minus staging -- at Lincoln Center this summer. The second is a great piece of doggerel from "A Spaniard in the Works" in which Thomas Weber, as detective Shamrock Wombls, solves "The Singularge Experience of Miss Ann Duffield" and explains, "Harry Belafonte, my dear...
...found at almost any non-Negro law school in the U.S. As classes convened last week, the 21-man faculty also included eight recent graduates of Yankee Yale. The Ole Miss Yalies-along with many another surprise-were brought there by the law school's dean, Joshua Morse III, 43, once a country lawyer in Poplarville, Miss. It was in 1963, after he was chosen by a faculty committee to head the Mississippi school, that Morse made the enterprising decision to take a year off for training at Yale Law School. During that year he came to believe that...
Oscar-winning Cat Ballou, she was outclassed by everything onscreen, including Lee Marvin's horse. In any case, there were others who helped along the way. An old family friend, Joshua Logan, directed her in starring roles in both her first film (Tall Story) and first play (There Was a Little Girl), and Daddy, "nonverbal" as she thinks he is, could not have been a total liability...
...practice law, spent his days at his club. Mama Potter, who looked like Queen Victoria, discouraged overnight visitors by keeping her spare rooms so dusty that they were uninhabitable. Beatrix' chief diversion lay in frequent trips to picture galleries, of which she candidly detailed her impressions: Sir Joshua Reynolds was "niminy-piminy," while "Raphael had never looked at a horse." She was occasionally malicious: "Miss Ellen Terry's complexion is made of such an expensive enamel that she can only afford to wash her face once a fortnight." Prime Minister William Gladstone was "a vain old bird...
...Javitses have three children: Joy, now 17 and a senior at Dalton School, who after graduating plans to spend this summer with her father in his two-bedroom apartment at 4000 Massachusetts Avenue as an unsalaried "intern" for Rhode Island's Democratic Senator Claiborne Pell; Joshua, 16, a Riverdale Country School junior who will be going off to London for the summer with his mother; and Carla, 10, a precocious fifth-grader at Dalton...