Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tennessee's other plays-he calls Cat on a Hot Tin Roof "a symphony of evil"-Dakin nonetheless finds an implied positive in each. Rape of a sister-in-law (A Streetcar Named Desire), homosexuality (Cat, etc.), cannibalism (Suddenly, Last Summer), garden-variety adultery (Orpheus Descending) and castration (Sweet Bird of Youth} may not be radiant with uplift, but "there can be no valid moral objection to the exposure of this sort of sin in human nature." The only Tennessee Williams product ever condemned by the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency, Williams' brother points...
Brotherly Shove. Basically, concludes Dakin Williams, his brother is like one of his own characters: Chance Wayne, who "seeks to recapture his 'sweet bird of youth'-his lost innocence." Adds Dakin: "In a recent conversation, Tennessee confided to me that although he was not certain that any Christian church had as yet discovered God, if it were now necessary for him to make a choice between the various churches, he would choose the Catholic Church...
...Francis Drake and the Frenchman Jean Nicot (after whom nicotine is named) all helped to popularize smoking, considered it good for the health. In 1614 a Scottish doctor named William Barclay wrote that tobacco "prepares the stomach for the acceptance of meat, makes the voice clear and the breath sweet," pushed it as an antidote for "hypochondric melancholy" and such diseases as arthritis and epilepsy...
...considered effeminate and had less than 10% of the market, Reynolds decided to bring out Camels in 1913 in a package decorated with a very sick-looking animal. Recalls former Director R. C. Haberkern: "He was atrocious. He had pointed ears, his head was bad, his feet looked like sweet potatoes." The problem was not solved until the Barnum & Bailey circus came to Winston-Salem, and the Camel people got a look at their first dromedary, Old Joe. Old Joe was promptly photographed, drawn for the package. (When Reynolds tried to change the package slightly...
...fooled; it's more fun to know." George Washington Hill, the prototype of the dictatorial sponsor in The Hucksters, was not a man to be outshouted; he pushed into the industry lead once more in the early 19305 with such ads as "Reach for a Lucky instead of a Sweet," "Nature in the Raw Is Seldom Mild," and "20,679 physicians say Luckies are less irritating." The FTC finally forced him to tone down some of his health claims...