Word: duenna
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...Lider's return. Isabelita has given them welcome encouragement. The former chorine whom Peron took up with in 1956 shortly after his exile and married in 1961, arrived in Buenos Aires last fall with twelve suitcases, $30,000 worth of jewels and a Spanish hairdresser for a duenna-and sparked angry riots between Peronistas and anti-Peronistas. After an emotional 8,000-mile tour of the country, she settled into her present routine. From 9 to 1 she receives delegations from near and far, gives pesos to the needy, tells them all: "I am the little mother [madrecita...
...that bad (although some are worse). The average gets better-the book is arranged more or less chronologically-until occasionally whole poems are free of howlers. Still the reader finds Melville awkward and even embarrassed in the presence of poetry, as if poetry were attended by a duenna and not a muse. His enormously long philosophical poem Clarel, which is excerpted here, is a sober, jointy affair in which pilgrims clatter painfully about the Holy Land thirsting after truth amid the waterless cantos...
...least once, however, the duenna grew forgetful, and Melville briefly became a poet. Billy in the Darbies (manacles) could stand in almost any company. In fact, it stands with the best; it is the conclusion of Billy Budd. In its last lines Billy muses about death...
...blackboard, chalk and talent snatched from all across the U.S. They attract many corporation scientists who want to do advance research at local universities-and then they jealously guard these recruits. Said one 128 president: "We don't let our chief scientist out of town without a duenna." At the same time, Route 128 companies draw as part-time consultants the fulltime professors and graduate students who want to put their ideas into action in industry (and to reap its rewards...
...Aleutian mink coat after the success of Come On-a My House), to keep a three-bedroom house in Beverly Hills and share an apartment in Manhattan's dressy Hampshire House with Jacqueline Sherman, 27, a well-to-do Chicago girl who is her friend, duenna and general chief of staff. On free evenings, she hits the theater and nightclub circuit like any other customer (current steady escort: Actor José Ferrer...