Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Proud and the Beautiful* (Kings-ley-lnternational), a French film based on an original treatment by Jean Paul Sartre, is an existentialist soap opera-a sort of Magnificent Obsession with a French accent...
...professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and, in large part, untrue. His whole professional activity is circumscribed by the prejudices, vanities and avarices of his university trustees, i.e., a committee of soap-boilers, nail-manufacturers, bank-directors and politicians...
...Johns Hopkins Hospital study revealed that soap is not the pure, clean substance people think it is. Tests of the hospital's own soap showed it contained 3,500,000 germ organisms per cubic centimeter. Contaminating bacteria from staff members' clothing found their way into solutions used for rinsing surgical gloves and instruments. Henceforth, the hospital will sterilize soap containers by steam under pressure and add chemical germicides to rinsing solutions...
...University suffered, however, in its relations with non-academic people who considered that Princeton was giving a soap-box to a convicted perjurer capable of "charming and deceiving" gullible undergraduates. This view, unhappily, was supported by the popular press and two Congressmen who had no connection with the University except that they represented New Jersey districts...
...high point seemed to be that, except for baseball, Jackie might have been expelled from junior high school. On Climax!, The Lou Gehrig Story possessed more inherent drama as paralysis ended both the career and life of the great Yankee first baseman, but unfortunately, the TV treatment was strictly soap opera. NBC got in another plug for the national pastime with Salute to Baseball, which made a couple of daring moves by putting Yogi Berra in a ballet from the Broadway hit, Damn Yankees (he uneasily swung a bat while dancers pranced about him), and Molly Goldberg in a locker...