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Happy Days and Wonder Years: The Fifties and the Sixties in Contemporary Cultural Politics

Book by Daniel Marcus; Rutgers University Press, 2004

Subjects:

Conservatism--United States, Nineteen Fifties, Nineteen Sixties, Politics And Culture--United States, Popular Culture--United States--History--20th Century, United States--Civilization--1945-, United States--Politics And Government--1945-1989, United States--Politics And Government--1989-

Collections: History, Entire Library

...less a critique of the 1950s than an attack on the Fifties, the contemporary notion...Everyone always evokes the 1950s nostalgically as the...based conceptions of the 1950s it celebrated were inevitably...movement beyond the Fifties, and into the present...
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The 1950s

Book by William H. Young, Nancy K. Young; Greenwood Press, 2004

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Nineteen Fifties, Popular Culture--United States--History--20th Century, United States--Civilization--1945-

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The 1950s 9 Music The fifties opened with American popular...radio institution by the 1950s, controlled most programming. Not until the mid-fifties would pop music again emerge...40 At the onset of the 1950s, the public annually purchased...
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American Culture in the 1950s

Book by Martin Halliwell; Edinburgh University Press, 2007

Subjects:

Nineteen Fifties--Social Aspects--United States, Popular Culture--United States--History--20th Century, United States--Civilization--1945-

Collections: History, Entire Library

1950s from the popular memory of the fifties. The theoretical problem, of course, is that any attempt...are various strategies for seeing beyond the mythology of the fifties. One strategy is to focus on the facts as established in his...
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Historical Dictionary of the 1950s

Book by James S. Olson; Greenwood Press, 2000

Subjects:

Nineteen Fifties--Dictionaries, United States--Civilization--1945---Dictionaries

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Madwives: Schizophrenic Women in the 1950s . 1987. YOUTH CULTURE Breines Wini...and Miserable: Growing Up Female in the Fifties . 1992. Doherty Thomas. Teen Pics...Reaction to Juvenile Delinquency in the 1950s . 1986. Graebner William. Corning of...
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Imagining the Fifties: Private Sentiment and Political Culture in Menzies' Australia

Book by John Murphy; University of New South Wales Press, 2000

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Australia--History--1945-1965, Australia--Politics And Government--1945-1965, Australia--Social Conditions--1945-1965

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Prosperity , p. 198. See also David Hilliard, "Church, family and sexuality in Australia in the 1950s", in Murphy and Smart, Forgotten fifties . 6. "Are you ready for marriage?", Womans Day and Home , 26 November 1951, pp. 28-9; advertisements...

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"Some Enchanted Evening"-Tuning in the Amazing Fifties, Switching off the Elusive Decade

Journal article by Teresa Alves; American Studies International, Vol. 39, 2001

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Authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Halberstam, David--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Lhamon, W.T., Jr.--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Nineteen-fifties decade--Social aspects, Social history--United States, The Fifties (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., United States--History

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...in the American 1950s, and David Halberstams The Fifties, have broken...David. The Fifties. New York: Fawcett...in the American 1950s. Washington...in the American 1950s (p.3). Lahmons...analysis of the fifties in this section...
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Eisenhower, King Utopus, and the Fifties Decade in America

Journal article by Philip Abbott; Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 32, 2002

Subjects:

Eisenhower, Dwight D.--Evaluation, Nineteen-fifties decade--Analysis, United States history--1950-1959, Utopias--Analysis

Collections: History, Entire Library

Eisenhower, King Utopus, and the fifties decade in America by Philip Abbott William...same manner. In fact, in taking the fifties as an example, I also hope to show that...the decade are so starkly drawn that the fifties seem to mimic all the qualities of utopian...
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Brooklyn Boomer: Growing Up in the Fifties

Journal article by Nitram Nosnivel; ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, Vol. 68, 2011

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Books--Book reviews, Brooklyn Boomer: Growing Up in the Fifties (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

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...Brooklyn Boomer: Growing Up in the Fifties. by Nitram Nosnivel Martin...Brooklyn Boomer: Growing Up in the Fifties. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse...which was Coney Island in the 1950s; his descriptions of the ecstatic...the United States during the 1950s including chapters on TV programs...
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Roughing It in the Suburbs. Reading Chatelaine Magazine in the Fifties and Sixties

Journal article by Richard Harris; Urban History Review, Vol. 31, 2003

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Books--Reviews, Roughing it in the Suburbs. Reading Chatelaine Magazine in the Fifties and Sixties (Book)--Reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Reading Chatelaine Magazine in the Fifties and Sixties. by Richard (Irish...Reading Chatelaine Magazine in the Fifties and Sixties. Toronto: University...metaphor for womens estate in the 1950s and 1960s, Valerie Korinek...at Canadian women during the 1950s and 1960s, presented mixed...
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Lost Trailer Utopias: The Long, Long Trailer (1954) and Fifties America *

Journal article by Dina Smith; Utopian Studies, Vol. 14, 2003

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...during the spectacular fifties. People tend to still...with the ideals of the 1950s (such as the return of the fifties "playgroup," Mom...challenge to normative fifties living. Id like to...mobile homes circuitous 1950s history. For it is...

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Telling Lies about History: "The Fifties" on Television

Magazine article by Hilton Kramer; New Criterion, Vol. 16, January 1998

Subjects:

Television programs--Reviews, The Fifties (Television program)--Reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...vocabularies of a mythical 1950s. Regarding every improvement...American life in the 1950s, this version of The Fifties is utterly indifferent...still true in the real 1950s. Yet in the History Channel series on The Fifties, Freud--like Stalin...
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Beyond the Gray Flannel Suit: Books from the Fifties That Made American Culture

Magazine article by Jay Martin; The Antioch Review, Vol. 63, Spring 2005

Subjects:

Beyond the Gray Flannel Suit: Books from the Fifties that Made American Culture (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Flannel Suit: Books from the Fifties That Made American Culture...Flannel Suit: Books from the Fifties that Made American Culture...pp., $22.95. That the 1950s was a decade of complacency...conditions of their time, fifties writers created a literature...
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Learning from the Fifties

Magazine article by Alan Ehrenhalt; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 19, Summer 1995

Subjects:

Nineteen-fifties decade--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Nineteen-nineties decade--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

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Learning from the fifties by Alan Ehrenhalt Contemplating...the easeful golden days of the 1950s. But as our author shows...the Chicago politics of the 1950s, you could either be part of...seemed hard to believe. The 1950s were a time of glory for Ernie...
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Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties

Magazine article by Robert Pearce; History Today, Vol. 56, December 2006

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Books--Book reviews, Having It So Good Britain in the Fifties (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...dealing with the pre-Fifties background, he almost...living through the 1950s, and reliving them...apparent in the late-Fifties. The roles of Sir...Britain in the late-1950s. If you dont believe...marked the 1940s and 1950s. Hennessy ends his...continued to envelop Fifties Britain like a comfort...
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The Fifties as I Never Knew Them

Magazine article by James Nuechterlein; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, February 1998

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A and E Television Networks--Evaluation, Documentary television programs--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Nineteen-fifties decade--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

The fifties as I never knew them by James Nuechterlein...part documentary, David Halberstams The Fifties. (The series is roughly based on Halberstams...talking head.) The programs take on the fifties is essentially that of a prosecuting attorneys...

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A Fifties Wife? No Thanks, I've Got One; Perfection: A 1950s Wife Cooks for Her Man

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 6, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

A Fifties Wife? No Thanks, Ive Got One; Perfection: A 1950s Wife Cooks for Her Man. Byline...that modern men do notwant a Fifties-style wife who cooks, cleans...jobdescription for the ideal 1950s wife. A good wife, it suggested...
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Lost Novel from the Beat Generation; Plain Downbeat: Jack Kerouac in the Fifties

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), November 24, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Lost Novel from the Beat Generation; Plain Downbeat: Jack Kerouac in the Fifties. Byline: IAN THOMSON THE BEAT writers and artists of 1950s America let out a breathy "yeah" for bebop and Jackson Pollock. They were Beatific...
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Book on the Fifties Shortlisted for [Pounds Sterling

Newspaper article; May 4, 2007

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University of London

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Book on the Fifties Shortlisted for Pounds...STUDY of Britain in the 1950s by a London professor...Good: Britain In The Fifties. The book, his seventh...STUDY of Britain in the 1950s by a London professor...Good: Britain In The Fifties. The book, his seventh...
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Chrome Sweet Chrome; ROCK'N'ROLL YOUR KITCHEN BACK TO FABULOUS FIFTIES

Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), July 15, 2007

Subjects:

Chromium, Chromium (Metal), Rock groups

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...KITCHEN BACK TO FABULOUS FIFTIES. Byline: By ALAN OKELLY...are both big fans of the 1950s and Jeff plays bass in...is now the envy of their Fifties-loving friends in Halstead...place goes to the original 1950s dinette table and red...
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Decline and Fall of a Fifties Glamour Queen; ILL AND ALONE, 'BRITAIN'S JAYNE MANSFIELD' FACES LOSING HER HOME

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 25, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Decline and Fall of a Fifties Glamour Queen; ILL AND ALONE, BRITAINS...Britains answer to Jayne Mansfield, the 1950s glamour girl with the hourglass curves...statistics - for which those tight-fitting Fifties sweaters seemed invented - won her fame...

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Bremer, Fredrika

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...travel in America (1849 51) in Homes in the New World (1853); letters from this book were translated as America of the Fifties (1924). Her later novels advocate the emancipation of woman. Her major novel Hertha (1856) gave its name to the journal...
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Low, Sir David

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...1939), Low on the War (1941), Years of Wrath (1946), which covers the period from 1931 to 1945, and The Fearful Fifties (1960). See his autobiography (1956). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press...
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Halberstam, David

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...led America into the Vietnam War. Among his other books are The Noblest Roman (1961), The Powers That Be (1979), The Fifties (1993), and War in a Time of Peace (2001). His last book, The Coldest Winter (2007), a study of the Korean War...
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Clay, Clement Claiborne

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Fortress Monroe for almost a year without trial, and then was freed. His wife, Virginia Clay-Clopton, wrote A Belle of the Fifties (1904), a description of their Washington, D.C., home when it was a gathering place of capital society...
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Motion Pictures

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...studios. From the 1930s until the early 1950s, the studios sponsored a host of talented...pictures. The Post-Studio Era In the 1950s, two developments ended the studios grip...urged technological innovation. In the 1950s experiments abounded with wide-screen...

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