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the fifties: not so nifty

Posted on December 26, 2012 by Dave

The 1950′s. The quest to satisfy supremely the prevailing hunger for all that was cozy, familiar, and safe. The myth that this was a special time, when the individual’s joys were allegedly unsullied, our problems of the most superficial variety, … Continue reading →

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the nifty fifties

Posted on December 25, 2012 by Dave

Must we be nostalgic about the 1950′s? … …Thus, in the way that people looked and dressed, in the cars that they drove, in the houses that they lived in, and in a myriad of other day-to-day aspects of life, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged bill haley and the comets, Buffalo Bob and Howdy Doody, Ellen Willis, Elvis Presley, Liberace, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Mike Jahn, Patti Page, Perry Como, Teresa Brewer, Those Redheads from Seattle movie | Leave a comment

fifties: features of figments

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Dave

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 →