Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many an outraged parent is not inclined to wait for the slow-grinding mills of the law to protect his children from cheap and easy smut. The result may be a well-intentioned pressure group that tries to boycott and bully all available reading matter down to a soap-opera level. Writing in the current issue of Harper's, Editor John Fischer thinks he has found just that in what he calls "a little band of Catholics . . . conducting a shocking attack on the rights of their fellow citizens. They are engaged in an un-American activity . . . harming their country...
...rich man's party, he wonders, forlornly, what country and what planet the Democrats are talking about. Feikens' job is to defeat a Democratic ticket next month that is: 1) headed by Michigan's popular four-term Governor G. Mennen Williams, millionaire heir to a soap fortune; 2) seconded by Lieut. Governor Phil Hart, who married an automobile fortune; and 3) backed to the hilt by Walter Reuther's United Automobile Workers of America, whose 700,000 Michigan members are regularly assessed for some $2,600,000 for educational work that has never been known...
...brought peace. Meanwhile, by "buying from heirs" Somoza acquired coffee fincas and cattle ranches, parlayed them into a fortune estimated at $60 million-some $20 million more than Nicaragua's annual budget. He reputedly owned one-tenth of the country's farmland, plus interests in lumber, liquor, soap, cement, power, textiles, cotton-ginning, sugar-milling, air transport, merchant shipping, even a barbershop-an estimated 430 properties. "You'd do the same thing yourself if you were in my place," he used to explain. Nicaragua advanced a little; e.g., more than 600 miles of all-weather roads were...
...Critics who for more than a decade have touted him as a new Stendhal are simply chasing the wrong literary genealogy. In the Snow-Galsworthy vision, the middle class can have no Stendhalian tragedies, only troubles. The scent of Homecoming is well-bred but unmistakable: it's Yardley Soap opera...
...this picture decided to play down, as far as possible, the subtle political angles, play up the obvious physiological curves of a handsome blonde actress named Jan Sterling. Result: a serious political satire comes off the screen as a sort of tractor romance in reverse, an anti-Communist soap opera that might more aptly have been titled Life Can Be Ugly. Orwell's book was depressing, partly because it was far too slick, but this film is far more depressing. The people who made it seem to have slipped on Orwell's slickness, and fallen flat on their...