Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Without the wax coating, the Harvard statue would look like a piece of soap." Beale adds...
...when a word comes to us in its individual character, and starts in us the individual responses, it is great pleasure to us. The American Advertisers have discovered this and some of the cunningest American literature is to be found in advertisements for soap suds for example...
These advertisements are almost prose poems. They give the word soap suds a bubbly shiny individual meaning which is very skillfully poetic, would perhaps be quite poetic to the mind, which could forget that the poetry was bait on a hook." --D.H. Lawrence, "Pornography and Obscenity...
...terms of plot, the show is merely the stuff of any normal television soap opera: rape, plunder, anguish, despair. But the yearlong Japanese TV series Sanga Moyu is causing a real-life melodrama of its own. Based on a popular novel, Two Homelands by Toyoko Yamasaki, it is the story of the Japanese-American Amoh family, immigrants to the U.S. whose national loyalties are tested by World War II. The homeland they choose does not choose them, and the Amohs live through racist humiliation, imprisonment in a California relocation center and other indignities. The show has been so popular...
...club members, we have suffered extensive and irreparable defamation of character. Still, I felt an obligation to write this letter in defense of an organization which I continue, along with countless other undergraduates and alumni, to be proud of. Maybe if these other organizations could step down from their soap boxes long enough, they would be able to discern reality from an unwarranted crusade. Thank you. Michael Travaglini...