Word: virgilia
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...Died. Virgilia Peterson, 62, critic and author whose gentle book reviews and coolly poised performance as moderator of the TV panel The Author Meets the Critics belied the fierce passion in her autobiography, A Matter of Life and Death, a startlingly candid account of her hatreds and loves, notably 17 years with the second of her three husbands, Polish Prince Paul Sapieha; of a heart attack; in Sharon, Conn...
GOLDEN GOAT (63 pp.)-Raymond L. Bruckberger (translated by Virgilia Peterson)-Pantheon...
...have-beens. Wellborn and well-to-do, he is fleeced at 17 by a well-built gold digger: "Marcella loved me for 15 months and eleven contos ($5,500); nothing less." Nonetheless, he graduates from college "with complete faith in dark eyes and written constitutions." He becomes engaged to Virgilia, a girl with a "mouth fresh as dawn and insatiable as death," but she jilts him for a politician. He survives the experience, and uses it to sharpen the Braz Cubas philosophy of life, also known as the Theory of Human Editions: "Let Pascal say that man is a thinking...
...Ghost's Summary. In some of Braz's editions he is successively 1) a bachelor recluse, 2) Virgilia's lover, 3) a national deputy who loses his seat with a speech advocating smaller caps for the National Guard, and 4) editor of a newspaper that lasts only six months...
...this was not the universal sentiment of the West. In Polish Profile, Princess Paul Sapieha (Virgilia Peterson Ross) documents the perplexity. A young woman from Manhattan who married a Polish aristocrat, Princess Sapieha (pronounced Sa-pee-ayz-ha) lived for six years in Poland and escaped last September under the wings of German bombers. She has written her book for her two children to inform them of the society into which they were born and which has now been ruined. It is an honest and unobtrusively well-written story, full of unaccented human truth. The wildness and gloom...