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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Chuck G."
<chgenoe2@p...> wrote:
> I would even say that it wasn't just fear that made
people angry,
> but the repression they felt at having to adhere to
this button
down
> happy family image. They had to smile like Ozzy and
Harriet, but
> what they really wanted to do was blow people away
like Mike
Hammer.
> I think Hammer provided a needed pressure release at
the time. Of
> course now people will shoot you if you don't signal
when you
change
> lanes.
There you go. And I really need to point out that this wasn't
an exclusively angry time. My parents were rather fond of the
fifties, thought it was a quieter, simpler time. There's
anger in all time periods like every other emotion, but
Spillane really struck a nerve in the fifties in a way that
most likely wouldn't work in other time periods.
And given the even divide in America, a Hammeresque character
would not do as well because one half of the country would
embrace him (or her) like a gun-toting teddy bear while the
other half would scream bloody murder over such a
barbarian.
Jim Winter
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