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...being a bondage babe wasn't much of a distinction to the mass audience of the '50s, who didn't know Bettie Page existed. Back then, Bettie was caviar only to the purchasers of girlie mags, tatty titles like Wink, Whisper and Flirt, where she was the preeminent pinup queen of her day. In January 1955 she was also the 13th model to grace the centerfold of a new slick magazine called Playboy...
...similar sort of re-framing that led the American fiasco in Vietnam to occur. The hardliners in the foreign policy apparatus in the late years of the 50s refused to see the fight in Vietnam as one of local politics, denied the overriding issues of nationalism and dressed it up as a Communist bogeyman for the American public and the world. Communism turned out not to be a monolith, just as Islam isn’t, but a force shaped by local history and regional circumstances. The results of this were disastrous. This sort of logic, that simplifies, reduces...
Revolutionary Road Richard Yates' devastating 1961 novel about a couple whose marriage implodes amid the cocktails and commuter trains of '50s suburbia may be the best book you've never read. So read it now--then see the film, starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio...
Barack Obama represents a profound moral breakthrough in history as well as in human attitudes in America. He is proof that what seemed almost unthinkable yesterday is now possible. Visiting the South in the mid-'50s, I confronted racism not only in the streets but also in the courts. The law itself was racist, ugly, inhuman. I felt shame. Now, 50 years later, America is proud...
Obesity-related illnesses, like diabetes, are so prevalent among the mentally ill that health officials call them an epidemic within an epidemic. For example, about 13% of schizophrenic adults in their 50s have received a diabetes diagnosis, compared with 8% of the general population of the same age. In October, the NASMHPD released another report, with recommendations for treating the particular problem of obesity, including giving those with severe mental illness better access to dietary consultations and promoting the prescription of low-weight-gain antipsychotics. The agency is currently working on creating a tool kit for federal health-care providers...