Word: evita
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time for Reminders. To Argentines, the speech was a breath-taking turnabout. Evita Peron's newspaper Democracia rose loyally to the new challenge by delivering a forthright attack on meat: "It will wreck your liver, undermine your health, poison you with proteins and provoke serious digestive disturbances." But the presidential conversion gave the Radical Party weekly Adelante a first-class chance to trounce the regime...
...Caused his wife Evita to withdraw from the vice-presidential race...
...displayed a willingness (later, eagerness) to talk 'girl talk' about clothes, jewelry, coiffure . . . She kept eying the jewel I wore. Peron winked at me and said in his halting English: 'That's one she can't have.' " When Fleur remarked that Evita's hair was "very becoming worn straight and simply, she asked if I would look at pictures of her in the many ways she'd worn it." Big photographs were spread on the floor. Fleur looked them all over and pronounced Evita's latest hairdo her best. "Evita asked...
Before their chat ended, Fleur got a chance to ask Evita how she kept track of the estimated $100 million a year that flows into her Social Aid Foundation. "I put the question to her carefully, saying I presumed she kept a very strict accounting of every dollar spent. 'How else will history give you credit for your charitable efforts?' was the way I put it. She brushed history and the accountants aside without blinking an eye. 'Keeping books on charity is capitalistic nonsense! I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop...
Intuitive Eye. Having collected her facts about Evita, Fleur said that they only confirmed her first intuitive size-up. Summing up, in her woman's-magazine style, she wrote: "Not a woman's woman, with a warm remembrance of moments spent like any woman with her friends . . . not a man's woman either, even if she once may have been, [but a] woman politico ... a woman too fabled, too capable, too sexless, too driven, too overbearing, too slick, too sly, too diamond-decked, too revengeful, too ambitious-and far, far too underrated far, far too long...