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Popular imagination regards the 1950s as an era of stability, prosperity and equality. But Jones Professor of American Studies Lizabeth Cohen has a mission to dispel these conventional, nostalgic notions about the postwar years...
...book, she writes of growing up in the 1950s, and her a personal story is held up against the wider analysis...
Despite the personal photographs in its pages and the retro 1950s Chrysler DeSoto on the book’s cover, Cohen emphasizes that such images and symbols are representative of larger social, economic, political and cultural changes...
Cohen told The Crimson of her apprehension that undergraduates studying the post-war era, and particularly the 1950s, will over-idealize the period...
...QUIET AMERICAN. Michael Caine is garnering some of the best reviews of his career for his role as a hardened journalist in this adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel. The film, set in 1950s Vietnam, pits Caine against Brendan Fraser’s undercover American spy as Fraser vies for the affections of Caine’s Vietnamese mistress (Do Thi Hai Yen). Fraser’s intervention in the romance is intended to parallel the film’s other plot—a commentary on the early American efforts to eradicate communism in Vietnam. Christopher Hampton...