Word: 1950s
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...fact, I was simply attending the opening of “When We Liked Ike: Looking for Postwar America,” a photography exhibit running through April 29 at the Carpenter Center. The exhibit uses household objects, quotations and photography to give insight into the 1950s, a period that conjures up an ambivalent mixture of nostalgia, disgust and curiosity in the modern viewer. The photographs, which are organized by theme, address topics such as childhood, the teenage years, marriage, suburbia, economic expansion, racist stereotyping and politics...
...encourage the continuation of her efforts to force Harvard to confront its Cold War legacy and its treatment of her late husband. Harvard should not allow obstinacy to cloud common sense. Though the current Board of Overseers is not responsible for Harvard’s actions in the 1950s and can in no way compensate Ann Ginger for events of the past, it does have the power to give her the apology that she deserves...
...Morrison, the portrayal of these relationships and the language used to describe them changed dramatically during the 1940s and 1950s, as evidenced in the works of authors like Carson McCullers and Harper...
...several high-profile cases during the early 1950s, the University took action against those it thought might be Reds. In 1953 Harvard suspended Medical School Assistant Professor of Anatomy Helen Deane Markham when administrators decided they could "no longer reasonably believe that she is free from Communist domination...
...final week of shooting on Jan Dara, and the location is Khao Yai National Park, a two-hour drive from Bangkok, where a lavish set has been prepared to resemble an aristocratic complex of five houses from the 1950s. Work begins at a wrenching 6 a.m. and drags on for 22 hours, and the temperature is soaring. It will soon get hotter. The final scene in the production schedule is a sybaritic consummation of furtive desire between two female characters. That has created anticipation, apprehension, curiosity and some plain old sauciness that one suspects was the intention from the start...