Word: stillborn
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Nixon called the stillborn confrontation with the Soviet Union early last Thursday the most serious episode since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. The next day the Soviet Union said that was nonsense. What is it that prevents the President from giving the nation more details, details certainly known to the Russians? A day earlier Secretary of State Henry Kissinger explained that the order to alert American troops came after long deliberation in a National Security Council meeting at 3 a.m. The President said that he had given the order shortly after midnight. A small thing, perhaps...
...POETRY of W.S. Merwin is stillborn, shaped in the silence of introspection. It never comes out of its cocoon, but chooses instead to remain inside and reveal the intensity of inner vision. One poem, "On Each Journey," describes the feelings you have reading Merwin...
...blood cells. Unable to do mature cells' work of carrying oxygen to the body's cells, the overworked blood-producing tissues−liver, spleen and other organs−swell and contribute to congestive heart failure, eventually causing death. The most seriously afflicted infants, however, are usually stillborn...
...doubt the mothers of many such infants are simply and directly told by their doctors that the children they carried for nine months were stillborn. The doctor thus participates in mercy-killing. Alas, the merciful physician--possessor of the "God syndrome"--giver and taker of life...
...that's the way it is, all set up in Act One, Scene Two to go nowhere discernible. Sure, she loses her baggage--Bentley Arlington concedes his courtship, Dad gives up the ghost and her nice guy manager takes off in search of new talent, but Casey is dramatically stillborn from her first scenes. There's a lot of staring out of an imaginary window with significant facial expressions but Casey does best with her clever humor and is rarely credible as a serious character. Mann has tried to conceal this with fancy, and attention-absorbing, footwork. But with fourteen...