Word: stoically
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...ends the film with a comedy rescue involving a band of Mexican Keystone cops. Jane Russell, looking woodenly decorative, works her throaty way through a couple of songs (Five Little Miles from San Berdoo and You'll Know), while Mitchum manages his undemanding part with an air of stoical resignation...
Social Research found that televiewers have come to regard commercials with "the stoical air appropriate to a necessary evil." Reactions differ considerably by class. The Upper Middles (12%), if they watch commercials at all, watch just to be critical. Middle Majority viewers (65%) are more sporting, will stay with commercials until they get bored. Lower Middle Class (23%) televiewers are apt to be most considerate. Because the advertiser pays for the program, they feel duty-bound to lend their eyes & ears to his sales message...