Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the general rule against modern conveniences-no electricity, plumbing, newspapers, cigarettes or soap -the 20th century kept intruding. British education authorities ruled that schoolbooks had to be available for the children, and laws demanded that a butcher come in to stun and slaughter the pigs. TV crews appeared on the scene about twice a week. Percival allowed the volunteers to use Tampax and contraceptives, sent in a doctor four times during emergencies, and took the group for a summer outing at the shore. Said he: "No one's life should suffer or be altered for a television show...
...have survived the emotional impact of the storm had it not been for the material and psychological aid from volunteers, charitable associations, and the federal government. Mennonites from Pennsylvania and Congregationalists from Wellesley organized groups to help clean up houses. The Red Cross supervised all relief efforts and distributed soap, mops and clothing vouchers...
...that, though, The Offering is not a bad book. Granted, the "Irishmen" found therein speak largely in some strange tongue found only in that mysterious land that produces moronic commercials for Irish Spring deodorant soap. And granted, the reader sometimes finds it difficult to believe that Reid's characters can daily consume enough Irish whiskey to stagger a water buffalo, yet retain enough brain cells to run around breaking each other's kneecaps with undiminished fervor. But trivialities and stereotypes aside, Reid still manages to entertain: his federal agents and seductresses, while quite familiar, are still endearing. And his friendly...
...saccharine love songs, soap operas, tea dances and simple-minded optimism mean a return to romanticism, then give me the harsh realism of my "generation of nightmares." The "self-indulgence" of those who gave their time, money and sometimes lives to the antiwar and civil rights movements helped make the current dream ride possible. The '60s were no sentimental journey, but we survived those years by living, not dreaming through them...
There's no such thing as liquid soap in the showers at Dillon Field House...