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Mad to Be Saved: The Beats, the '50s, and Film

Book by David Sterritt; Southern Illinois University Press, 1998

Subjects:

American Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, Beat Generation, Experimental Films--United States--History And Criticism, Fiction, Literature And Society--United States--History--20th Century, Motion Pictures And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, Motion Pictures--United States--History

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...selfish, or neurotic 166 . Sex may have been frightening in the '50s, but it was also craved and venerated. If marriage was the place...Dyer puts Monroe's impact in context by suggesting that in the United States of the '50s, "sex was
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Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States

Book by Rodrigo Lazo; University of North Carolina Press, 2005

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Authors, Cuban--United States--Political Activity--History--19th Century, Cuba--History--1810-1899, Cuba--Relations--United States, Cuban Newspapers--United States--History--19th Century, Cubans--United States--Intellectual Life--19th Century, Cubans--United States--Politics And Government--19th Century, Exiles--United States--Political Activity--History--19th Century, Filibusters--Cuba--History--19th Century, United States--Relations--Cuba

Collections: History, Entire Library

...touches on Zeneas residency in the United States but does not emphasize the overtly political content of the I8 50s verses or focus on exiles effect...other poems from the r85os in the United States, but the transnational dimensions...
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Daily Life in the United States, 1940-1959: Shifting Worlds

Book by Eugenia Kaledin; Greenwood Press, 2000

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United States--Social Conditions--1933-1945, United States--Social Conditions--1945-, United States--Social Life And Customs--1918-1945, United States--Social Life And Customs--1945-1970

Collections: History, Entire Library

...propaganda for the United States. But its tremendous...full acceptance of the United Nations both at home...To the credit of the United States Information Agency...as publicity for the United States, all copies of...Eleanor Roosevelt in the 50s began to disintegrate...
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Mexico and the United States - Vol. 3
Includes: Politics, Local - Zoot Suit Riots

Book by Marshall Cavendish; Marshall Cavendish, 2003

Subjects:

Mexico--Relations--United States--Encyclopedias, United States--Relations--Mexico--Encyclopedias

Collections: History, Entire Library

...agreement between the United States and Mexico, whereby...chose to remain in the United States. The lack of...labor. Under 1L78 the United States provided safe...conditions, and the United States was not effective...throughout the 1 <)50s, In the 19611s, however...
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Hired Hands: Seasonal Farm Workers in the United States

Book by Stephen H. Sosnick; McNally & Loftin, West, 1978

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Agricultural Laborers--United States, Migrant Agricultural Laborers--United States, Seasonal Labor--United States

Collections: History, Entire Library

...lettuce consumed in the United States and almost all of the...lettuce shipments in the United States. The larger lettuce...Imperial Valley. The United Packinghouse Workers of...about 6,000 jobs in the 50s when growers, led by...

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Journal Articles on: 50s united states

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Demographic Trends in the United States: a Review of Research in the 2000s

Journal article by Andrew J. Cherlin; Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 72, 2010

Subjects:

Demographics, Families & family life, Sociology, Trends, United States

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...Demographic Trends in the United States: a Review of Research...minority group in the United States (U.S. Bureau of the...found men who, in their 50s or 60s and in poor health...less attention in the United States than in other developed...
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"Acting out the Oedipal Wish": Father-Daughter Incest and the Sexuality of Adolescent Girls in the United States, 1941-1965

Journal article by Rachel Devlin; Journal of Social History, Vol. 38, 2005

Subjects:

Father-daughter relations--Evaluation, Fathers and daughters--Evaluation, Sex (Psychology)--Evaluation, Sexuality--Evaluation, Teenage girls--Crimes against, United States--Social aspects

Collections: Psychology, History, Entire Library

...particularly acute in the United States, where David...incest in the 1940s and 50s in the United States, we learn primarily...gauge of how vigorously state authorities enforced...Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920 (Chapel...
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Scientists in Time of War: World War II, the Cold War, and Science in the United States and France

Journal article by Dominique Pestre; French Politics, Culture and Society, Vol. 24, 2006

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Cultural studies, France--History, France--Political aspects, France--Science and technology policy, Military-industrial complex--History, Military-industrial complex--International aspects, Military-industrial complex--Research, Postwar reconstruction (World War II), Technology and civilization--History, Technology and civilization--International aspects, Technology and civilization--Research, Technology and society--History, Technology and society--International aspects, Technology and society--Research, United States--History, United States--Political aspects, United States--Science and technology policy

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...reshaped nation-states of the period. This...and education by states, with the creation...global mastery, the state as an institution...administrative state of cold war America...and Science in the United States (7) Let me then...in the 1940s and 50s. If I first try...
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Should China Be Considered an Adversary of the United States?

Journal article by Frederic N. Smith; The Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies, Vol. 25, 2000

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China, Foreign policy, History, International relations-US, Military strategy, Taiwan, United States

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Communism. Others state that China is so...risk war with the United States. Any veteran of...takes to get the United States out of Asia...Matsu in the late 50s and early 60s...as preventing the United States from reinforcing...miniature narco state, let alone be able...
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Different Paths to Mass Consumption: Consumer Credit in the United States and West Germany during the 1950s and '60S

Journal article by Jan Logemann; Journal of Social History, Vol. 41, 2008

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Consumer behavior--Comparative analysis, Consumer credit--Comparative analysis, Germany--Comparative analysis, United States--Comparative analysis

Collections: History, Entire Library

...1960s as the welfare state had been expanded...household as in the United States. (146) Rather...Social Entitlement State in Germany (Ann...it is notably the United States where "deficit...Consumer Credit in the United States," pp. 23-34...Logemann Pennsylvania State University

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Magazine Articles on: 50s united states

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Retire in Your 50s - These Doctors Will!

Magazine article by Vicki Brentnall; Medical Economics, Vol. 84, July 20, 2007

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Decision making, Family physicians, Guidelines, Retirement planning, United States

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Retire in Your 50s - These Doctors Will! by Vicki Brentnall...Hodges hope to retire around their mid-50s. The Hodges philosophy is simple to understand...underserved area, their local hospital and state medical society helped them deep-six...
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Lavender Lads Bartone Babes: Long before "Outing," Confidential Magazine Was Printing Gay Rumors about the Stars-Without Wrecking Careers. in Writing about the Tabloid, Samuel Bernstein Wonders: Was '50S America More Tolerant Than We Think?

Magazine article by Samuel Bernstein; The Advocate, February 27, 2007

Subjects:

Discrimination against gays--Forecasts and trends, Homophobia--Forecasts and trends, United States--History, United States--Social aspects

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...in Writing about the Tabloid, Samuel Bernstein Wonders: Was 50S America More Tolerant Than We Think? by Samuel Bernstein Ive...to my research, Confidential had 5 million readers by the mid 50s, yet Johnson remained under studio contract. There were no...
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How to Make a Spy: For 60 Years, the United States Has Struggled and Failed to Create a First-Rate Secret Intelligence Service. Few Agents Can Haggle in a Foreign Bazaar or Even Hope to Understand Rapid-Fire Arabic. It May Be Hard to Find the Proper Skills among the Present Generation of Young Americans. but It Would Not Be Impossible to Create Them

Magazine article by Tim Weiner; Foreign Policy, September 2007

Subjects:

Intelligence service--Recruiting, Secret service--Recruiting, Spies--Training, United States. Central Intelligence Agency--Finance, United States. Central Intelligence Agency--Powers and duties

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...in their 40s and 50s, the result has...strong suit. The United States has struggled...protected the United States for so long also...the military, the State Department, or the...it out. But the United States would then have 10...is espionage. The United States can continue...
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'Our Mr. Sun': Religion and Science in 50s America

Magazine article by James Gilbert; History Today, Vol. 45, February 1995

Subjects:

Capra, Frank--Works, Nineteen-fifties decade--History, Religion and science--History, Science films--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Sun: religion and science in 50s America. by James Gilbert Despite...suggests something significant in the United States. That, it seems to me, is the...the last fifty years, only the United States has resisted the scientific secularisation...
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How Did the '50S Ever Beget the '60S?

Magazine article by E.J. Dionne, Allan Carlson; The American Enterprise, Vol. 8, May-June 1997

Subjects:

Nineteen-fifties decade--Analysis, Nineteen-sixties decade--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...against conformity in the 50s also took non-political...asserted, was rooted in the 50s view that the United States would "pay any price...the nostalgia for the 50s are certain yearnings...new national security state, a product in turn of...

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Newspaper Articles on: 50s united states

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The United States Cannot Abandon the Rest of the World

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 13, 1997

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United Nations

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

The United States cannot abandon the rest...mindless bashing of the United Nations or even stranger...contributions to the United Nations and are closing...a withdrawal from the United Nations. What is needed...had in the 1940s and 50s. That does not mean...
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If Japan Was a Person, It Would Be in Its 50s: Poll

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, December 15, 2010

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

...Person, It Would Be in Its 50s: Poll. (Reuters Life...person, it would be in its 50s. By contrast, China would...from Asia, Europe and the United States, said Hakuhodo Institute...said Japan Sun was in its 50s or 60s.Giant neighbor...
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'50S Club Hosts Benefit Car Show

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 5, 2002

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

50s club hosts benefit car show...OBrien, THE WASHINGTON TIMES 50s club hosts benefit car show...presented by the Lost in the 50s Custom Car Club, welcomes...seven still in existence in the United States will be on display at Carlisle...
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Fake $50S Link to Sydney Raids

Newspaper article; Coffs Coast Advocate (Coffs Harbour, Australia), December 1, 2010

Subjects:

Gangs

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

Fake $50S Link to Sydney Raids. POLICE say the discovery of fake $50 notes on...south-western suburbs. Six men were arrested in Sydney and one in the United States as police dismantled an organised crime syndicate with links to bikie...
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Nostalgia for '50S Gets Close Scrutiny: Era Was Product of War, Frum Says

Newspaper article by Robert Stacy Mccain; The Washington Times, June 9, 1999

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American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

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

Nostalgia for 50s gets close scrutiny...the Korean War - "the United States was almost constantly...domestic politics, they were united on what then really mattered...and homogeneity" of the United States in the 50s was in part the product...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: 50s united states

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Washington , State, United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

WASHINGTON , state, United States state in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. It is bordered by Idaho (E); Oregon, with the Columbia River marking much of the boundary (S); the Pacific Ocean (W); and the Canadian province of...
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Missouri , State, United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

MISSOURI , state, United States mizoor e, , one of the midwestern states of the United States. It is bordered...has contributed to the United States such outstanding statesmen...prosperity prevailed in the state, the depression years...
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Martin, Agnes

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...American painter, b. Macklin, Canada. She moved to the United States in 1931, became a U.S. citizen in 1950, and emerged as an important artist in the late 50s and early 60s. Martin is best known for her spare, abstract...
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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...independence of the United States was a time of intellectual...molders of the new state included excellent...the dramatists the United States has produced. Other...in the 1940s and 50s. Poetry after World...Literary History of the United States (3d ed...
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Radio

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...broadcasting station in the United States, technical improvements...particularly in the United States. Subsequent research...drastically, and the 1940s and 50s witnessed the migration...Europe (1998) and in the United States (2000). Two...

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