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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-

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...intermittently produced series of films on Fifties rock heroes, particularly ones who came...CONCLUSION By the late 1970s the revival of the Fifties had lost its cultural energy. Happy Days...freshness and cultural power diminished. Fifties-themed productions have enjoyed momentary...
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The Fifties Spiritual Marketplace: American Religion in a Decade of Conflict

Book by Robert S. Ellwood; Rutgers University Press, 1997

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United States--Church History--20th Century, United States--Religion--1945-1960

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...position in the world of the Forties and Fifties may have been basically reactive, and...works, the existentialists, like other Fifties elite critics, dehumanized the masses...the United States, not a few of those Fifties disparagers of the new television, automobile...
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Masked Men: Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties

Book by Steven Cohan; Indiana University Press, 1997

Subjects:

Fiction, Masculinity--United States--History--20th Century, Men In Motion Pictures

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...INTRODUCTION Most popular accounts of the fifties look back at this period as a kind of...According to historian J. Ronald Oakley, the fifties was "a time of consensus," notably...class males," he concludes, "the fifties was perhaps the best decade in the history...
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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

...understanding circulate in the present. The fifties currently has extraordinary salience...newspaper clippings referring to the fifties. This file is now quite substantial and includes instances where the fifties works as a contemporary metaphor for...
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Facing the Fifties: From Denial to Reflection

Book by Peter A. O'Connor; Allen & Unwin, 2000

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Middle Aged Persons--Psychology

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...the parallel between adolescence and the fifties transition, we will not be surprised...issues of adolescence re-emerge in the fifties. At any one point in time we may be functioning...For adolescents, and adults in their fifties, there are concerns about financial resources...

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Eisenhower, King Utopus, and the Fifties Decade in America

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

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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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"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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...Enchanted Evening"--Tuning In the Amazing Fifties, Switching Off the Elusive Decade. by...Forties and the traumatic Sixties, the Fifties have suffered, as many things in history...American 1950s, and David Halberstams The Fifties, have broken the ground for a revival...
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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 H. Levinson. Brooklyn Boomer: Growing Up in the Fifties. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2011. This compelling time-binding memoir and social history of Brooklyn and America...
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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

...Roughing It in the Suburbs. Reading Chatelaine Magazine in the Fifties and Sixties. by Richard (Irish actor) Harris Korinek, Valerie...Roughing it in the Suburbs. Reading Chatelaine Magazine in the Fifties and Sixties. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000...
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Mexico in the Fifties: Women and Church in Holy Alliance

Journal article by Soledad Loaeza; Women's Studies Quarterly, Vol. 33, 2005

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Catholic churches, Cold War, Communism, History, Mexico, Social impact, Traditions, Women

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Mexico in the Fifties: Women and Church in Holy Alliance by...potential in the public sphere. In the fifties the missions of women were to preserve...ideological and political context of the fifties enabled the Church to restore the moral...

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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

Telling lies about history: "The Fifties" on television by Hilton Kramer Criticism...subject of David Halberstams book on The Fifties,(1) first published to much misguided...life in the 1950s, this version of The Fifties is utterly indifferent when not openly...
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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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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

Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties. by Robert Pearce Having It So Good Britain in the Fifties Peter Hennessy Allen Lane 740pp 30 pounds...Labour governments. In comparison, the Fifties may well seem anti-climactic. Its best...
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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

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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the Gray Flannel Suit: Books from the Fifties That Made American Culture. by Jay Martin...the Gray Flannel Suit: Books from the Fifties that Made American Culture by David Castronovo...miasmic social conditions of their time, fifties writers created a literature of "special...
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Learning from the Fifties

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

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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 turmoil and stress of the last three-and-a-half decades, many Americans idealize the...

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TIME WARP WIFE; Fab Fifties: Joanne in Her Retro Kitchen, in the Couples Bar, below Right, and with Her Pet Dachshunds, below Left

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 11, 2008

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

TIME WARP WIFE; Fab Fifties: Joanne in Her Retro Kitchen, in the...was far more straightforward in the Fifties, and has made her home and her married...waist and baking a cake for Kevin in my Fifties kitchen. I put on some lovely Frank...
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TRULY,THE FIFTIES WERE FABULOUS; Bakelite,Brylcreem and Beehives. but despite Rationing and Austerity, a New Book Says the British in the 50s WERE a Contented People, and Yes, Crime WAS Much Lower Than Today

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 26, 2006

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

TRULY,THE FIFTIES WERE FABULOUS; Bakelite,Brylcreem and...Hardly anyone who lived through the Fifties does not feel nostalgia for that somehow...title of Peter Hennessys new book on the Fifties. The country still basked in the worlds...
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THE POWER OF PRETTY; Fifties Fashion, Inspired by Mad Men, Is Proving a Hit with Today's More Liberated Women Too

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 30, 2010

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

THE POWER OF PRETTY; Fifties Fashion, Inspired by Mad Men, Is Proving...embodies the glacial glamour of the Fifties/early Sixties. It is Bettys weekly...Prada and Louis Vuitton -- evoke the Fifties, you know that this is a look with...
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Living the American Dream; Fifties Fan Serina Tells How She Has Turned Her Home into a Homage to Life in the Good Old US of A

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), March 9, 2011

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

Living the American Dream; Fifties Fan Serina Tells How She Has Turned...young woman whose infatuation with the Fifties has turned her home into a homage to...Serina looks every inch the young Fifties American girl about town. Initially...
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OH MOTHER, HOW DID YOU COPE? It's the Shock Bestseller - a Housekeeping Bible from the Fifties. but How Would This Modern Career Woman Cope with the Gruelling Chores Imposed on an Earlier Generation?

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 9, 2005

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

...Bestseller - a Housekeeping Bible from the Fifties. but How Would This Modern Career Woman...Beverley Turner, 32, to a week as a Fifties housewife while her husband, Olympic...woman is talking about. Im sure to the Fifties housewife this book would make sense...

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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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