Word: sylvia
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...define Woman exclusively as a sexual being. They don't like women to deviate from preconception, and when women do threaten to leap the boundaries their achievements are either discounted or attributed to some mysterious quality of femininity. At one point Mrs. Ellmann quotes an article on Sylvia Plath...
...were christened in the beginning Sylvia Plath...
...mysterious figure: no man quite knows her. Victorian writers characterized her as a religious zealot or an anxious nanny. In the post-analytical theater, Playwrights William Inge and Tennessee Williams toss her about like a sex bomb on a short fuse -guaranteed to explode somewhere in the second act. Sylvia Ashton-Warner's Spinster and Margaret Laurence's A Jest of God show the bomb defused. Both novels capture the faded maiden in dignity and pathos. She is as obsolete as an antimacassar-and as real as the reader...
...Return," screamed Sylvia at exactly seven minutes to one. And it shocked Murray; he had forgotten about religion and the theory of the eternal return. But of course as a fine specimen of summer school girl Sylvia had remembered the curfew...
Goodnight Sylvia; Goodnight Murray...