Word: aurelia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Edited with preface by AURELIA PLATH...
...When Aurelia Plath told her eight-year-old daughter Sylvia that her father was dead, the child said, "I am never going to speak to God again." When she came home from school that day she presented her mother with an oath to be signed: "I promise never to marry again...
Little Bayonets. The book was also a painful blow to Aurelia Plath. Like all the other characters in The Bell Jar, the narrow-minded, hard-working mother is ferociously cartooned. Shortly before trying to kill herself, the heroine watches her sleeping, "the pin curls on her head glittering like a row of little bayonets...
...with another general, Edelmiro Farrell), Perón's fellow officers cooled toward him. His romance with Maria Eva Duarte, then a third-rate actress of questionable reputation, did not help matters. Perón was a widower when he met Evita in 1943. His first wife, Aurelia Tizón, had died of cancer in 1938. Perón's ungallant epitaph: "Poor thing, she always bored me." Evita never bored him, but her captivation of Perón angered his moralistic, status-conscious colleagues...