Jim wrote:
"The fifties in the US were a time of paranoia, largely due
to the Cold War and the Red Scare. Some of this was
well-founded, like the threat of terrorism today. And like
today's terrorism scare, it generated a lot of hysteria and
anger, a lot of times unfocused."
And don't forget the UFO scares (there was a great '90s comic
book about them -- Silent Invasion). As for more earthbound
worries, there were flouridation, juvenile delinquency and
rock 'n' roll -- as incorporated as it now is, it was the
soundtrack to what many thought were terrible cultural trends
(in Deliberate Speed, WT Lhamon makes a pretty convincing
case that all of the cultural changes associated with/blamed
on the '60s actually began in the '50s). Spillane is
interesting for being so reactionary in his views about the
threatening changes while profiting from the new explicitness
that those changes opened the way for.
Mark
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