Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maiden aunt, every shopgirl its happily envious kid sister, every vicar its parish priest, and every family man its authoritative uncle. In moments of relative calm, the country cousins can watch and enjoy the cavortings of their royal relations in London with the detachment of televiewers watch ing a soap opera, but when the affairs in Britain's perpetual One Man's Family take critical turns, the detachment vanishes...
...Deep Blue Sea (London Film; 20th Century-Fox), if not soap opera, is certainly no better than detergent drama. In this British movie, Playwright Terence (The Winslow Boy) Rattigan seems to be cautioning the middle-aged married woman about switching from a dull husband to a young lover: the change may only mean a painful, new set of harness sores...
...happy and busy people," 3) Britain's royal family and common folks treated her "very meanly" in disallowing her the title of Her Royal Highness. Said Amory: "I told the duchess I didn't mind omitting facts, but . . . I wouldn't distort them. She wanted . . . a soap opera...
Another rather disturbing trait of Wouk's is his tendency to lump the pastimes of his average people together with their morals. He is not content to show that people are admirable when they adhere to conventional morality, but must also show that everything they do--listening to soap operas, watching abominable movies--is just as admirable. Fortunately such passages are few, but their overall effect is to liquidize and sentimentalize the viewpoint that Wouk takes...
...illness; in Boston. After his rise from general manager and treasurer, quiet, publicity-shy Countway raised sales from less than $1,000,000 in 1913 to $250 million in 1944. He invented B.O. during a golf game to boost his product, Lifebuoy; presided over the debuts of Lux Toilet Soap, Rinso, Swan and Spry; in 1939 received the highest salary with bonuses ($469,713) outside Hollywood...