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fifties: features of figments
Must we be nostalgic about the fifties? Pervasive influences are at work. We are not left to our own devices and nostalgic impulses do not flow as they will. They are not mirrored in their variety by the mass media, … Continue reading
fifties: remembering for us
People remember the fifties not as the living recall them,but as they have been recreated. It is what makes the myth of the fifties so remarkable and so modern. Such is the pervasive influence of mass communication and an industry … Continue reading
the fifties: looking for a sense of decency
Must we be nostalgic about the 1950′s. Some remember it as some sort of Golden Age but the Cold War, the Great Fear and the McCarthy witch hunts mitigate against that assessment… …As people watched stunned and rapt, Senator McCarthy … Continue reading
the fifties: east side stories
We have been through trying times these past several years. The urge to look back on what is perceived as a ahppier, simpler time is naturally very strong. We tend to canonize the fifties as stable and reassuring, a Golden … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Lomax, Alger Hiss, Arthur Miller, Danny kaye, Dorothy Parker, Humphrey Bogart, lena horne, Leonard Bernstein, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, McCarthy with hunts, Olin Downes, Orson Welles, Pete Seeger, Red Channels pamphlet HUAC, Roy Acuff, Roy Cohn, Senator Joseph A. McCarthy
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nostalgic about the fifties
Must we be nostalgic about the fifties? Color the decade green, the color of chlorophyll; sprinkle with freckles, like Howdy Doody; add a smear of red lipstick, and put it in a sack. What do you get? An Edsel. Thinking … Continue reading
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