Word: 1950s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Throughout the cold war the American right defined itself, its opponents, the national purpose and the life of the planet in terms of the Great Other, the global menace centered in Moscow. The McCarthyite witch-hunts of the 1950s grew out of a wildly unrealistic fear that the reds could take over the country. In the early '60s, many Western experts were slow to recognize the Sino-Soviet split because it contradicted their belief in a monolithic enemy. In the '70s, conservatives argued that leftist tyrannies were ascendant in the world and impervious to the kind of internal reform...
Greenwald grew up in the sunny 1950s economy of Los Angeles, priding himself on his skills as a bodysurfer. When it came time for college, he enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, planning to become a professor. By the time he completed his bachelor's degree in English, his growing interest in public affairs had spawned a new ambition to become a journalist. After taking a master's in journalism from Berkeley, Greenwald added a degree in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. As a reporter and later business editor for the Minneapolis...
...Waterston's plodding earnestness can be a bit much, and the political- correctness level is inordinately high. But there is much truth and tenderness in this family drama set against a backdrop of racial tensions in a 1950s Southern community. Easily the best of a dismal crop of new network shows...
Back in the late 1950s, Stuart Ressler was one of the eager young scientists trying to crack the genetic code of the DNA molecule. In the mid-'80s, he works the night shift for a computer billing outfit in Brooklyn. What brought Ressler to this dead-end job? That is only one of the questions posed and answered by this demanding, dazzling novel. Also on display are two love stories, two intertwined narratives, vast erudition and a white-knuckled, suspense-filled investigation into the meaning of life...
Back in the late 1950s, Stuart Ressler was one of the eager young scientists trying to crack the genetic code of the DNA molecule. In the mid-'80s, he works the night shift for a computer billing outfit in Brooklyn. What brought Ressler to this dead-end job? That is only one of the questions posed and answered by this demanding, dazzling novel. Also on display are two love stories, two intertwined narratives, vast erudition and a white-knuckled, suspense-filled investigation into the meaning of life...