Word: hilda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HILDA SHRIVER New York City > TIME'S reporter understood Mrs. Shriver, the justifiably proud mother of Robert Sargent Shriver Jr., to say: "We're nicer than the Kennedys. We've been here since the 1600s. We're rooted in the land in Maryland. The Kennedys like to be around people who are in the news. They are flamboyant...
...covered courses at the Institute de Cine Popular, run by a Cuban professor named Alfredo Guevara (no kin to Che), who gave Fidel Castro some of his first lessons in Marxism. Javier lived at "Peru House," where the house mother is Che Guevara's exwife, Peruvian-born Marxist Hilda Gadea. For five months he wrote home faithfully, then the letters stopped...
...story begins, Clem emerges from his cocoon of dirty laundry onto the Via Veneto for a day or so of wife-sitting with Hilda, pregnant bride of his old school and college pal Mark Stone (né Stein). Stone is now a widely liberal rabbi, and busy with last-minute preparations for his International Conference on Love to be held at the offices of the U.S. Information Service. Hilda and her attendant Clem attend the conference, go to bed, get mixed up in a May Day demonstration in the Piazza del Popolo. Clem knocks Mark cold (with a stone, naturally...
...works out in their relations with Hilda, who is not just another dim blonde, but America herself. She has the "egg-smooth non-face of America," a soap-opera vocabulary ("I have no me inside"), and she is a tease: "I want you to want me though I have no intention of satisfying you." Finally, neither husband nor lover is the father of her unborn child; the real father, a former husband, died a few minutes after the conception. She stepped over his body and left the scene. In other words, she is "The Enemy" (of U.S. man), and identified...
...Greenmantle, for instance, another Hannay pal called Sandy Arbuthnot spurns the passionate advances of a fetching but fell lady spy named Hilda von Einem. "You must know, Madam," he says as bullets whiz about them, "that I am a British officer." Nowadays such behavior is hopelessly out of all fashion, literary and otherwise...