Word: 1950s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Countryman's political crusade began in the 1950s, while he was teaching at Yale Law School. He fought fiercely against McCarthyism, which was at its height at the time, and he was also a thorn in the side of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover for many years...
Arthur Miller, the world-renowned playwright widely regarded as a pioneer of American drama, recounted his experiences with the anti-Communist hysteria of the 1940s and 1950s and the creation of "The Crucible" in a lecture Monday afternoon...
Because of the connection he made to Salem, Miller said he more clearly understood the actions of the government in the 1950s...
Marvels have been created out of a sense of inferiority, as the history of American museums proves. But from the 1880s to the late 1950s, American museums--the Whitney itself being the lone exception--were less interested in fostering American artists than in acquiring, at warp speed, the cultural treasures of Europe. This applied to modernism as well as to the Renaissance, and it wouldn't change until the late '50s, when Abstract Expressionism began to be elevated into the Triumph of American Painting. Earlier 20th century American art took much longer to be appreciated by Americans (or anyone else...
...keeping up with the Joneses became more important in the "Golden Era" of the 1950s and into the 1960s, spending more time and money on lawn maintenance (and on golf, if you had the credentials to get accepted by a club) became obligatory. [Ed. Note: For those currently striving to fit in, check out the Harvard-insignia golf balls currently democratically available at the COOP for a mere $XXX]. Lawncare became a major summertime preoccupation and a major moneymaking industry. Lawn culture is now the stuff of American iconic legend: through shows like "King of the Hill" and films such...