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...1950s, as the middle class expanded, the custom had calcified into a hard-and-fast rule. Along with a slew of commands about salad plates and fish forks, the no-whites dictum provided old-money élites with a bulwark against the upwardly mobile. But such mores were propagated by aspirants too: those savvy enough to learn all the rules increased their odds of earning a ticket into polite society. "It [was] insiders trying to keep other people out," says Steele, "and outsiders trying to climb in by proving they know the rules." (See the video "Recession Etiquette with Peggy...
...created the SAT, back when the letters stood for Scholastic Aptitude Test, thought they had made an exam that measured the pure capacity of students' minds to absorb college material; the SAT was a direct descendant of early IQ tests. So imagine their surprise when one day in the 1950s, a Brooklyn, N.Y., high school principal arrived at the headquarters of the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton, N.J., bearing the news that a young man named Stanley Kaplan was operating a thriving little business out of his parents' basement coaching students on how to raise their scores so they...
...bedrock of Japanese foreign policy, and everyone relaxed. Picking on the U.S., it seemed, was just an election gambit by which Hatoyama's Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) distanced itself from the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has ruled Japan for all but a few months since the 1950s...
...professor has trouble describing what a derivative is); sad tales of working-class families evicted from their homes because their mortgage rates ballooned; a snowbank of statistics, such as that worker productivity has increased by 45% since 1980 while average real income is stagnant; and pert clips ranging from 1950s instructional films to that YouTube favorite, "Cat Flushing a Toilet Music Video." The material is, as always in Moore movies, efficiently and amusingly marshaled to serve the larger theme: that the establishment thrives by cheating ordinary Americans. (Read Michael Moore's take on Bernie Madoff for the TIME...
Blob, The • remake of will feature a new kind of blob because, according to director Rob Zombie, "that gigantic Jello-looking thing might have been scary to audiences in the 1950s, but people would laugh...