{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "The idea of the Fifties that America still holds \u2014 the happy, \u201cgreasy\u201d Fifties \u2014 was an \u201cinvented History.\u201d Up until 1969, quite...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/138910279463/", "html": "The idea of the Fifties that America still holds \u2014 the happy, \u201cgreasy\u201d Fifties \u2014 was an \u201cinvented History.\u201d Up until 1969, quite an opposite cultural memory held sway. When Americans remembered \u201cthe Fifties,\u201d they thought of Joe McCarthy witch hunts, of an \u201cage of anxiety,\u201d of the \u201cshook-up generation\u201d diving under their desks during A-Bomb drills, of the Man in the Gray Flannel Suit selling out and Holden Caulfield cracking up, or Allen Ginsberg \u201948 and Jack Kerouac \u201944 too \u201cbeat\u201d to fight back. Nothing to get nostalgic about there. In a section titled \u201cRe-inventing the Day Before Yesterday,\u201d Guffey describes older critics, who remembered the decade only too clearly, \u201cshocked at the happy-go-lucky imagery\u201d of what Horizon Magazine protested as the \u201cnewly-minted\u201d Fifties.
\nhttps://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/sep_oct08/features1
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