Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thing critics have failed to make clear: a room play is not necessarily a soap opera. The single room is convenient even more than it is conventional, permitting both realism and synopsis. The playwright has the prerogative of using concentrated situations, and shouldn't be criticized for fully exploiting what is to begin with a limited form. In the simplest terms, Miss Hellman sticks to one room here because she wants to save time...
Though he stands on history's highest soap box, Glenn is not a man to pontificate, and the program as a whole follows his lead. It ranges across every relevant topic from aerospace medicine to the U.S.'s unmanned satellite programs. Scientists and astronauts stand up at blackboards and clearly explain just how landings are made on the earth and would be made on the surface of the moon. Deft animation explains the complicated docking procedure: hooking up a manned capsule to an orbiting rocket, providing the added power to complete a lunar voyage...
...jealous of Snow's fame, and Lord Boothby (former rector of St. Andrews) wrote in the Spectator: "There are plenty of beetles in Cambridge. But, without doubt, Dr. Leavis has now qualified for the post of Chief Beetle." Yet, although one critic called Snow's novels "intellectual soap opera," few discussed Leavis' basic concern, the tendency of technology to suffocate humanities...
...They say that when he moved out of the governor's mansion ten years ago, a policeman, making a routine check of the vans carrying the governor's property, discovered one filled with nothing but toilet paper--15,000 rolls of it--and perhaps as many bars of soap, all taken from the mansion. One observer remarked that "he--if not his administration--was sure clean as a hound's tooth...
Facing up to the island's growing hunger, he set harsh new rationing regulations. In Havana, almost everything is to be rationed. Rice is restricted to 6 lbs. per person per month; beans, 1½ lbs.; soap, one cake ("I believe it will suffice if used economically," said Castro); eggs, five. Meat is restricted to ¾ lb. per week (enough for three small hamburgers ). Castro offered such stock excuses for the food failure as the Yankee boycott (although U.S. food exports to Cuba are still legal), but also acknowledged some of the shortcomings of collectivization. He wound up with...