Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leaked out of jail last week, typified to Argentines the spirit of defiance and even gaiety with which many of Perón's recent political prisoners bore their lot. High-spirited Victoria Ocampo, sixtyish, wealthy editor of Buenos Aires' highbrow literary magazine Sur, reportedly kept her sister prisoners laughing by telling jokes, organized a drama group to put on French plays. But the hero of most of the stories was indomitable old Alfredo Palacios. When fellow prisoners speculated whether there had really been an organized anti-Perón plot, Palacios snorted: "Of course not. If there...
...days, Sister Marie Aline was joined by a teen-age novice, Sister Dominique, who had once been a student at the University of Aix-Marseilles. Every morning after Mass, the two sallied forth alone in their blue and grey habits on long walks through sections of the city where nuns and priests-or anyone with a few pesos to rub together-are seldom to be seen. At last the horrified mother superior summoned them and demanded an explanation. "We are searching for our future home," replied Sister Marie Aline serenely. "But it is not up to us to decide exactly...
...Bomba, Sister Marie Aline and Sister Dominique knew they had found their new home. That night the nuns of the Casa de la Virgen prayed long for the two sisters out in the dangerous dark. And that night, by the light of a big bonfire, the neighbors of La Bomba labored with the sisters to build their house...
Their house was built around Christmas time. All through the raw winter, Sisters Marie Aline and Dominique worked to establish themselves, putting up a fence to keep out the animals and building a small, neat chapel. Little Sisters of Jesus are supposed to earn their own living: Sister Dominique got a job as charwoman to a rich family in town and Sister Marie Aline began to give French lessons and do babysitting. The people of La Bomba accepted them as their own. Women dropped in to offer help and ask advice; children picked up French words to impress them; during...
...North. Later, when Charlotte was a teacher, she found nothing more thrilling than a letter from brother Branwell reporting "news" of one of their old make-believe characters, "the Duke of Zamorna." Jane Eyre was a reworking of the fantasies of Charlotte's childhood, says Author Lane, while sister Emily's Wuthering Heights testified to a stony desire never to abandon the world of imagination for what everyone else called the world of reality...