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Kerouac’s On the Road, written in the early 1950s, brought the author instant fame and helped spark the Beat movement. Beatniks, as followers were sometimes called, were often associated with their rejection of conventional standards and their anti-establishment views, which most appealed to the frustrated youth...
...America, he was discussing its special challenges with Kamoun. "He told me, 'Josée, this one's got a word that might be a bit difficult,'" she recalls. The book's narrative hinges on a misunderstanding of "spooks," which is both a term for ghosts and a 1950s racist slur for African-Americans. Sitting in her book-filled Paris apartment, Kamoun, 53, explains that she quickly thought of the word zombies, which in French can have its own derogatory double meaning. But it wasn't quite right. She was eventually forced to rely on the translator's last resort...
...addition to being one of the most important and cutting-edge examples of 1950s film noir, Pickup highlights the disparity and paradox between the two most prominent American values of the time: individual ambition and blindly patriotic anti-Communism. In one of the film’s most potent moments, the police threateningly ask the protagonist if he knows what treason is, to which he responds with “Who cares?” Released in the year of the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executions, Pickup is rife with political daring, both endangering and enabling Fuller?...
...with generally modern, basic items. This is a good place to go if you want clothes that are fairly straightforward and cheaper than new ones, particularly if, as manager Kristen L. Daley says, you “aren’t interested in paying more for something from the 1950s...
Outside the U.S., the psychological impact of currency fluctuations is well known. The strength of the deutsche mark in the 1950s and '60s was a key component in West Germany's recovery of national confidence after World War II. Britons over age 60 were born into a world with four dollars to the pound and then lived through periods in the 1980s when there was near dollar-pound parity--which contributed to a pervasive sense of national decline. The strength of the yen in the bubble years of the late '80s convinced many that Japan had become "Number...