Word: stillborn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact there was far less to the diverting little drama than met the eye. Though front-page stories in the U.S. anxiously warned that the action by Nigeria had dealt a serious blow to oil companies and consumers alike, the Shagari government had done nothing of the kind. The stillborn scandal really amounted to something considerably different from what the overeager press reporting in Lagos and the U.S. implied...
...died the way false prophets are supposed to die, washed ashore on the sands of a stillborn ocean, forgotten except in the frenetic words of the man who made him Dean Moriarty, the hero of On the Road. And now they're trying to bring Neal back to life, bring Jack back to life, make Carolyn rich and famous. Don't they know that what's dead is dead, that Neal and Jack are dead, that the fifties are rotting away under Time's tombstone, that the sixties are dead, that Christ! even the seventies are dead...
...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...