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...Craddock is a novel in which we see Maugham working out his familiar obsessions--the mother endangered in pregnancy, the stillborn child, the pain of love, and the quest for freedom. Just as Maugham identified with his mother, he makes Bertha Craddock his alter ego...Bertha represents both Maugham's mother and Maugham; she is the unconsciously disguised homosexual lover...
Just as Carter was making credit control a key focus of his retooled anti-inflation program, a joint congressional conference committee was agreeing, after years of debate, to broad-ranging legislation that would dramatically alter the structure of American banking. This will intensify the survival-of-the-fittest struggle going on among savings institutions, as they labor with soaring interest rates and try to attract new depositors...
...alter any pictures without prior notification and permission of the subjects and print only pictures directly relevant to articles and captions directly relevant to pictures...
...March 7th, the Harvard/Radcliffe Asian American Association asked the Hasty Pudding Theatricals to alter the character of Ed Foo Yung. After several discussions, the cast and staff of the production acknowledged the destructiveness of their distorted ethnic depictions. They are nevertheless reluctant to change the image of Ed Foo Yung. A mere recognition of the problem without subsequent termination of the practice is a sterile intellectual exercise; it does not repair the inherent social damages of the play...
Deflating as these anticlimaxes are, they still do not alter the achievement of what has gone before. The early scenes, which unfold in the green hills and gaslit haunts of a dusky rural mining town, are full of flavor and native humor. When the pallid, naive Loretta marries an Army veteran of 19 (Tommy Lee Jones) and moves with him to Washington State to raise a family, the couple's first ignorant encounters with sex and the outside world are conveyed with tender humor rather than condescension. When Loretta gets her first guitar and starts to pick and sing...