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...rendered insignificant in the crush of the crowd, but because being a fan involves faith. No matter what their current form may be, your team is the best - and if it doesn't prove that now, it will soon. Belief is all. As Brooklyn Dodgers fans said in the 1950s: Wait 'til next year...
Given this remarkable mix of acceptance and skepticism, it's not so surprising, then, that Henry Bauer, the editor of S.S.E.'s journal and a dean emeritus at Virginia Tech, wrote the definitive treatise debunking Immanuel Velikovsky, whose best-selling books in the 1950s argued that Old Testament miracles were triggered by close encounters with Venus. But it's also not surprising that that same Henry Bauer has published papers arguing that scientists have ignored powerful evidence that the Loch Ness Monster is real...
...vehemently opposing contraception, denying women the right to become priests and prohibiting priests from sharing their life and love with a spouse. It makes no sense for the Catholic Church to elect a Pope who is almost 80 years old and is still relying on the ideals of the 1950s...
...creatures have acquired enough limbs to drag themselves from the ocean, they find one another on land and decide to mate--and a sexy, smooth jazz riff starts playing in the background. Millions of game years after that, you will find their descendants zipping across interstellar space in absurd 1950s-style UFOs...
...Rupert Holmes novel), about a blond corpse discovered in the hotel suite of a comedy team - smooth Vince Collins (Colin Firth) and manic Lanny Morris (Kevin Bacon) - and the efforts of a young journalist (Alison Lohmann) to solve the case. Such a tale, set in two periods, the glitzy 1950s and shaggy 70s, might have had some period effervescence. But the concoction here is flatter than a long-opened bottle of sham...