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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Jacques Debierue"
<matrxtech@y...> wrote:
>Specifically,
> what makes you think that people were particularly
angry in the
> fifties, as opposed to other decades?
In America... and let me make sure I'm clear on that. I can't
speak to Canada or Europe at the time... the fear of
Communism, and with that, the spectre of nuclear war was so
pervasive that conformism was the order of the day here. With
paranoia and hysteria comes anger, much like you see here
these days. (Yes, we are a pissed off people at the moment.)
Anything that didn't fit the OZZIE AND HARRIETT, grey-flannel
suit, duck-and-cover mold in this country was regarded with
fear and suspicion, which makes for an angry populace.
That's not to say there wasn't any joy here in the fifties,
just as you can't say there isn't any here now. It was also
when rock and roll was born, humans started seriously
contemplating going into space, and the country was insanely
prosperous. But fear and suspicion make for angry times, and
we had that in spades in the fifties. I don't know how much
more specific I can get than that.
Jim Winter
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