An edition of The 50s
(2015)
The 50s
the story of a decade
First edition.
by Henry Finder
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A look back at the 1950s chronicles the tensions and innovations that lay behind the decade's more placid surface during a time of prosperity and contradiction.
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The 50s: the story of a decade
2015, Random House
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Table of Contents
Part one.
American scenes -- a note by Elizabeth Kolbert.
Success (on Jackie Robinson, V salesman) -- John Graham and Rex Lardner
Fallout (on radioactive debris) -- Daniel Lang
Ahab and nemesis (on Rocky Marciano vs. Archie Moore) -- A.J. Liebling
Mr. Hunter's grave (on a Staten Island cemetery) -- Joseph Mitchell
The cherubs are rumbling (on juvenile gangs) -- Walter Bernstein
Part two.
Artists & entertainers -- a note by Rebecca Mead.
The perfect glow (on Oscar Hammerstein II) -- (Philip Hamburger
Throw the little old lady down the stairs! (on John Huston and the making of The red badge of courage) -- Lillian Ross
Humility, concentration, and gusto (on Marianne Moore) -- Winthrop Sargeant
The duke in his domain (on Marlon Brando in Kyoto) -- Truman Capote
A woman entering a taxi in the rain (on Richard Avedon) -- Winthrop Sargeant
Part three.
Shifting grounds -- a note by Jill Lepore.
The foolingh things of the world (on Dorothy Day) -- Dwight MacDonald
Notes and comment (on the case against Senator McCarthy) -- E.B. White
The psychosemanticist will see you now, Mr. Thurber (on fifties jargon) -- James Thurber
A meeting in Atlanta (on the NAACP assembly) -- Bernard Taper
Letter from Chicago (on the Democratic Convention) -- Richard H. Rovere
Letter from San Francisco (on the Republican Convention) -- Richard Rovere
Letter from Washington (on Eisenhower and Little Rock) -- Richard H. Rovere
Part four.
Far-flung -- a note by Evan Osnos.
No one but the Glosters (on a Korean War battle) -- E.J. Kahn, Jr.
The seventeenth of June (on an uprising in East Germany) -- Joseph Wechsberg
The old boys (on Chiang Kai-Shek) -- Emily Hahn
Letters from Paris (on the Algerian War) -- Janet Flanner
Letter from Gaza (on refugees in the Strip) -- A. J. Liebling
Cuban interlude (on Cuba and its rebels) -- Norman Lewis
Part Five.
Takes -- a note by Malcolm Gladwell.
Characters.
Ernest Hemingway -- Lillian Ross
Jackson Pollock -- Berton Roueché
Toots Shor -- John Bainbridge
Harold Ross -- E.B. White
Sylvester Weaver -- Thomas Whiteside
Emily Post -- Geoffrey T. Hellman
Frank Lloyd Wright -- Geoffrey T. Hellman
Bobby Fischer -- Bernard Taper
Mort Sahl -- Whitney Balliett
Leonard Bernstein -- Robert Rice
Lorraine Hansberry -- Lillian Ross
Computers.
I.B.M.s new brain -- John Brooks
The Nim machine -- Rex Lardner
Data processing systems -- John Brooks
Election results via Univac -- Philip Hamburger
The perceptron simulator -- Harding Mason
Curious developments.
The home freezer -- Brendan Gill
Jazz class at Columbia -- Whitney Balliett
Vaccinating against polio -- John McNulty
Marketing Miltown -- Thomas Whiteside
Rock 'n' roll's young enthusiasts -- Dwight MacDonald
The push-button phone -- Harriet Ben Exra
The arrival of videotape -- Louis P. Forster
The quiz-show scandals -- John Updike
Part six.
The critics -- a note by Adam Gopnik.
Books.
The vision of the innocent (on The catcher in the rye by J.D. Salinger -- S.N. Behrman
Green on Doting (on Henry Green) -- V. S. Pritchett
Black man's burden (on Invisible man by Ralph Ellison) -- Anthony West
The book-of-the-millenium club (on Mortimer Adler's great books set) -- Dwight MacDonald
Doctor life and his guardian angel (on Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak) -- Edmund Wilson.
The current cinema.
Good tough stuff (on On the waterfront) -- John McCarten
No sanctuary (on The 400 blows) -- John McCarten
The theatre.
Bouquets, brickbats, and obituaries (on Guys and dolls) -- Wolcott Gibbs
Something to remember us by (on Cat on a hot tin roof) -- Wolcott Gibbs
Beep the meem (on Marcel Marceau) -- Wolcott Gibbs
Shaw with music (on My fair lady) -- Wolcott Gibbs
Points west (on A raisin in the sun) -- Kenneth Tynan
Cornucopia (on Gypsy) -- Kenneth Tynan
Television.
Peeping Funt (on Candid camera) -- Philip Hamburger
Bananas in general (on TV comedians) -- John Lardner
Thoughts on Radio-Televese (on on-the-air language) -- John Lardner
Art & architecture.
Extremeists (on Jackson Pollock et al.) -- Robert M. Coates
Styles and personalities (on an Abstract expressionism show) -- Robert M. Coates
The mud wasps of Manhattan (on tall buildings gone wrong) -- Lewis Mumford
The roaring traffic's boom (on a congested metropolis) -- Lewis Mumford
The lesson of the master (on the Seagram building) -- Lewis Mumford
Music.
Jazz records (on Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk) -- Whitney Balliett
Man with a manner (on Glenn Gould at Carnegie Hall) -- Winthrop Sargeant
Jazz records (on Coleman Hawkins) -- Whitney Balliett
Part seven.
Poetry -- a note by Paul Muldoon.
Boys at the window -- Richard Wilbur
Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze -- Theodore Roethke
Love for a hand -- Karl Shapiro
The artist -- William Carlos Williams
Living in sin -- Adrienne Cecile Rich
Questions of travel -- Elizabeth Bishop
Sparrows -- Hayden Carruth
First things first -- W.H. Auden
Voices from the other world -- James Merrill
Mussel hunter at Rock Harbor -- Sylvia Plath
Just how low can a highbrow go when a highbrow lowers his brow? -- Ogden Nash
The arctic ox -- Marianne Moore
The goodnight -- Louis Simpson
Lying awake -- W. D. Snodgrass
The road back -- Anne Sexton
Part eight.
Fiction -- a note by Jonathan Franzen.
Taste -- Roald Dahl
No place for you, my love -- Eudora Welty
The other Paris -- Mavis Gallant
Six feet of the country -- Nadine Gordimer
Pnin -- Vladimir Nabokov
The state of grace -- Harold Brodkey
The country husband -- John Cheever
The happiest I've been -- John Updike
Defender of the faith -- Philip Roth.
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