Tag Archives: the 1950′s

the fifties: nobody’s mad at nobody

Posted on December 24, 2012 by Dave

Like no other decade, the 1950′s incarnated the process of myth making in a very conspicuous manner into rosy myths in the shadows of unrosy reality that has resulted in some enduring Great Revivals that have tended to get out … Continue reading →

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happy days: manufacture of innocence

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Dave

Halfway through the 1950′s , in the summer of 1955, Life ran an article entitled Nobody is Mad With Nobody.” In the text, in which, next to  photographs of things like two car suburban garages marked “his” and “hers”, the … Continue reading →

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