Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bottoms & Boots. In a rambling press conference, Sihanouk made the elaborate claim that the U.S. had vainly attempted to soft-soap him last November by sending Jacqueline Kennedy over on a sub rosa diplomatic mission. "Chester Bowles is going to try to succeed where Mrs. Kennedy failed," Sihanouk declared. "But Chester Bowles, no matter how he smiles, does not have and never will have the seductive effect of Mrs. Kennedy. He will go home empty-handed." For good measure, Sihanouk added: "I do not want to lose my dignity, I do not want to lick the bottom and boots...
What keeps a man and his soap apart for so long? Bad but heavily significant puns. Long scatological accounts of constipation that add up to a plain case of logorrhea. Recurring signs and symbols planted like a Freudian scavenger hunt. Above all, the metaphysical pseudo-Joycean rhetoric of a sometime poet, sometime screenwriter from Hollywood ("The mind is a revolving snowflake out of the backblackward...
Many 80-hour-a-week executives might try something else: rejoining their families. In recasting themselves as fathers, they might recast their values and change their lives. Making a living is important, but selling more soap should not destroy the process of raising sons. And why not attack age segregation by putting teen-agers to work teaching tots and nursing old people? In Asia, age is respected instead of rejected. The present U.S. system deprives all age groups of "essential human experience," says Cornell Psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner, a father of the Head Start program, which deliberately engages parents and older...
...audacity of visual technique fits perfectly with the straight-forwardness of the narrative style. The unflinching sincerity of director and writer (Sidney Howard, with assisst from Ben Hecht and Scott Fitzgerald) transcends Margaret Mitchell's soap opera, giving Gone With the Wind the truly epic quality of the best films of John Ford. At the very least, it depicts the passage of time better than any other picture I've seen; we share with the characters the memory of scenes as if they had occurred 15 years before. Our sense of history is reinforced by the obvious visual deterioration from...
Norman Vincent Peale occasionally watches Lucy, Bonanza and The F.B.I. Van Cliburn often unwinds between practice sessions or before performances with afternoon soap operas. So does Artur Rubinstein, who on request can unravel the complicated plots of a half dozen of the soapers. ("Those organs!" says Rubinstein, holding his nose and unmistakably imitating their quavering tone.) William Buckley says that he finds no time for TV, but Chicago Lawyer Newton Minow, the former Federal Communications Commission chairman who described TV as a "vast wasteland," still watches fairly regularly. Among his favorites: Get Smart...