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...resemblance to the Andersons, the show had the ring of familiarity, if not of gospel truth. Though I didn?t always follow the precepts peddled by Jim and Margaret, I was raised on them. It wouldn?t be a stretch to say that FKB was the documentary of my 1950s - the way the '70s PBS series An American Family might have mirrored real life for younger kids, but with the accent on the positive, not the corrosive...
...largest segment of the foreign-born population came from Germany. We reached 200 million in 1967, when the largest portion of foreign-born Americans came from Italy. Today that largest segment is from Mexico. We are now less of a melting pot--the great assimilation metaphor of the 1950s--and more of a patchwork quilt, where people retain more of their national heritage within the context of being an American...
...Produced by Aileen K. Robinson ’08, the play is directed by Visiting Director Marcus Stern, who staged the play several years earlier at the American Repetory Theatre. “Bette and Boo” presents the story of a young couple in the 1950s and follows the breakdown of their idyllic marriage, as told by their adult son. In doing so, Durang comprehensively addresses his ideas on issues of alcoholism, the flaws and hypocrisy of Catholicism, and parental neglect.However, unlike most of its predecessors in the Mainstage last year, this play focuses its drama squarely...
...driving it, we better get an immigration policy that gives us the numbers we want. They had almost none of that in 1915 - it's not that they were dumb; it's that they had different problems. I mentioned a second difference - the civil rights movement happened in the 1950s and '60s and to some extent is still going on, and we have a profoundly different public sense of what language to use and about the unacceptability of public discrimination. The immigration reform files today are almost entirely devoid of racist language and the sort of language that, 100 years...
DIED. Herbert Leonard, 84, producer who created the seminal 1950s-'60s small-screen gems Naked City (New York crime tales); Route 66 (guys roam the U.S. in a Corvette convertible); and The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (stories of an orphan and his dog in the Old West); in Los Angeles...