A couple of seminal works were first published in the 1950s: one comparatively easy reading (The Lord of the Rings), one challenging, even disturbing and grim (The Second Sex).
And whatever ills may have been plaguing society, well, at least the war was over. Crippling neuroses are no fun, to be sure, but getting a bullet in the chest or a grenade fragment in the head doesn't give you much chance for recovery, ever.
There was some good music produced in the 50s, although it took a little while longer for things to really blow open with The Beatles, The Stones, and so on.
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To me, the best thing abou tit is that its a more simple way of life. People were more into partying and having fun. Also it was a more romantic time in the U.S. where people were more after love and the good things in life.
Most women were a hundred times better housewives. Men were men, and feminist nazis were few and far between. Oh, and lots of dancing.
If you were male middle-upper class and white. everything was great back then.
I'd have to fight in the revolutionary war.
It was Dope :)
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