Tag Archives: Milton Berle

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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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 →

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way over yonder up there

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Dave

Robert Wadlow was the tall boy. He didn’t min the ribbing about the weather up there, but there were worse drawbacks to being the tallest man in the U.S.A. Up where he belongs… Until the last months of Wadlow’s Ringling … Continue reading →