Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Suburban Sartre and soap-opera sensibilities are the springs from which three moderns drink in Murray Schisgal's hilarious satire of the chatter of Freudian analysis and the jargon of the theater of the absurd...
...told the family how to wash dishes and store them on wooden shelves. After lunch I offered to give a demonstration of dishwashing. The word went out to the villagers, who quickly gathered in a big circle, while I squatted in the middle with a basin of water, soap, a sponge, and a pile of dirty plates. As I washed, J. explained in a stentorian voice what it was necessary to do to kill germs. I washed the dishes carefully, then took the hot water that I'd had the women heat and poured it over the plates and glasses...
DAYS OF OUR LIVES (NBC, 2-2:30 p.m.). The premiere of another soap-and-scalpel opera, this time starring Macdonald Carey as the melodramatic medico...
...mutiny achieved results of sorts. In 1806, nine years after it was over, the navy raised an able seaman's pay one shilling a week. In 1808, for the first time in history, British crews received an issue of soap. In 1866, Parliament lowered the ceiling on flogging to 48 strokes, and in 1879 flogging was abolished in the fleet forever...
Recently in Phu Bai a Navy doctor paused in the midst of treating a long line of village children to wipe his brow and expostulated: "Dammit, if we could just get these people to wash their kids off with soap and water, half of the cases we're treating here today wouldn't be sick." A marine corporal near by listened and nodded. Next day five marines, four washtubs and a bag of towels pulled into Phu Bai in a Jeep, and an assembly line was soon set up. One by one the village's toddlers were...