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The 50s : the story of a decade
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- ISBN: 9780679644811
- ISBN: 0679644814
- ISBN: 9780679644828 (ebook)
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xvii, 764 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2015]
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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 -- |
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| Subject: | United States Civilization 1945- Nineteen fifties |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Kirtland Community College Library | E 169.12 .A187 2015 | 30775305501752 | General Collection | Available | - |
The 50s: the Story of a Decade
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Table of Contents
The 50s: the Story of a Decade
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction David Remnick | p. xi | |
| Part 1 | American Scenes: A Note Elizabeth Kolbert | p. 3 |
| Success (On Jackie Robinson, TV salesman) John Graham and Rex Lardner | p. 7 | |
| Fallout (On radioactive debris) Daniel Lang | p. 9 | |
| Ahab and Nemesis (On Rocky Marciano vs. Archie Moore) A. J. Liebling | p. 25 | |
| Mr. Hunter's Grave (On a Staten Island cemetery) Joseph Mitchell | p. 39 | |
| The Cherubs Are Rumbling (On juvenile gangs) Walter Bernstein | p. 68 | |
| Part 2 | Artists & Entertainers A Note Rebecca Mead | p. 93 |
| The Perfect Glow (On Oscar Hammerstein II) Philip Hamburger | p. 97 | |
| Throw the Little Old Lady Down the Stairs! (On John Huston and the making of The Red Badge of Courage) Lillian Ross | p. 112 | |
| Humility, Concentration, and Gusto (On Marianne Moore) Winthrop Sargeant | p. 136 | |
| The Duke in His Domain (On Marlon Brando in Kyoto) Truman Capote | p. 159 | |
| A Woman Entering a Taxi in the Rain (On Richard Avedon) Winthrop Sargeant | p. 191 | |
| Part 3 | Shifting Grounds A Note Jill Lepore | p. 213 |
| The Foolish Things of the World (On Dorothy Day) Dwight Macdonald | p. 217 | |
| Notes and Comment (On the case against Senator McCarthy) E. B. White | p. 238 | |
| The Psychosemanticist Will See You Now, Mr. Thurber (On fifties jargon) James Thurber | p. 241 | |
| A Meeting in Atlanta (On an NAACP assembly) Bernard Taper | p. 249 | |
| Letter from Chicago (On the Democratic Convention) Richard H. Rovere | p. 268 | |
| Letter from San Francisco (On the Republican Convention) Richard H. Rovere | p. 277 | |
| Letter from Washington (On Eisenhower and Little Rock) Richard H. Rovere | p. 286 | |
| Part 4 | Far-Flung: A Note Evan Osnos | p. 295 |
| No One but the Glosrers (On a Korean War battle) E.J.Kahn, Jr. The Seventeenth of June (On an uprising in East Germany) Joseph Wechsberg | p. 308 | |
| The Old Boys (On Chiang Kai-shek) Emily Hahn | p. 329 | |
| Letter from Paris (On the Algerian War) Janet Flanner | p. 346 | |
| Letter from Gaza (On refugees in the Strip) A. J. Liebling | p. 350 | |
| Cuban Interlude (On Cuba and its rebels) Norman Lewis | p. 358 | |
| Part 5 | Takes A Note Malcolm Gladwell | p. 375 |
| Characters | ||
| Ernest Hemingway Lillian Ross | p. 379 | |
| Jackson Pollock Berton Roueché | p. 381 | |
| Toots Shor John Bainbridge | p. 383 | |
| Harold Ross E. B. White | p. 387 | |
| Sylvester Weaver Thomas Whiteside | p. 390 | |
| Emily Post Geoffrey T. Hellman | p. 394 | |
| Frank Lloyd Wright Geoffrey T. Hellman | p. 396 | |
| Bobby Fischer Bernard Taper | p. 399 | |
| Mort Sahl Whitney Balliett | p. 402 | |
| Leonard Bernstein Robert Rice | p. 404 | |
| Lorraine Han sberry Lillian Ross | p. 408 | |
| Computers | ||
| LB.M.'s New Brain John Brooks | p. 413 | |
| The Nim Machine Rex Lardner | p. 415 | |
| Data Processing Systems John Brooks | p. 418 | |
| Election Results via Univac Philip Hamburger | p. 420 | |
| The Perceptron Simulator Harding Mason | p. 423 | |
| Curious Developments | ||
| The Home Freezer Brendan Gill | p. 425 | |
| Jazz Class at Columbia Whitney Balliett | p. 427 | |
| Vaccinating Against Polio John McNulty | p. 430 | |
| Marketing Miltown Thomas Whiteside | p. 432 | |
| Rock 'n' Roll's Young Enthusiasts Dwight Macdonald | p. 436 | |
| The Push-Button Phone Harriet Ben Ezra | p. 440 | |
| The Arrival of Videotape Louis P. Forster | p. 443 | |
| The Quiz-Show Scandals John Updike | p. 446 | |
| Part 6 | The Critics: A Nate Adam Gopnik | p. 453 |
| Books | ||
| The Vision of the Innocent (On The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger) S. N. Behrman | p. 459 | |
| Green on Doting (On Henry Green) V. S. Pritchett | p. 466 | |
| Black Man's Burden (On Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison) Anthony West | p. 470 | |
| The Book-of-the-Millennium Club (On Mortimer Adler's Great Books set) Dwight Macdonald | p. 475 | |
| Doctor Life and His Guardian Angel (On Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak) Edmund Wilson | p. 487 | |
| The Current Cinema | ||
| Good Tough Stuff (On On the Waterfront) John McCarten | p. 504 | |
| No Sanctuary (On The 400 Blows) John McCarten | p. 506 | |
| The Theatre | ||
| Bouquets, Brickbats, and Obituaries (On Guys and Dolls) Wolcott Gibbs | p. 508 | |
| Something to Remember Us By (On Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) Wolcott Gibbs | p. 510 | |
| Beep the Meem (On Marcel Marceau) Wolcott Gibbs | p. 513 | |
| Shaw with Muisic (On My Fair Lady) Wolcott Gibbs | p. 515 | |
| Points West (On A Raisin in the Sun) Kenneth Tynan | p. 517 | |
| Cornucopia (On Gypsy) Kenneth Tynan | p. 519 | |
| Television | ||
| Peeping Funt (On Candid Camera) Philip Hamburger | p. 523 | |
| Bananas in General (On TV comedians) John Labdner | p. 525 | |
| Thoughts on Radio-Televese (On on-the-air language) John Lardner | p. 530 | |
| Art & Architecture | ||
| Extremists (On Jackson Pollock etal.) Robert M. Coates | p. 534 | |
| Styles and Personalities (On an Abstract Expressionism show) Robert M. Coates | p. 536 | |
| The Mud Wasps of Manhattan (On tall buildings gone wrong) Lewis Mumford | p. 539 | |
| The Roaring Traffic's Boom (On a congested metropolis) Lewis Mumford | p. 544 | |
| The Lesson of the Master (On the Seagram building) Lewis Mumford | p. 550 | |
| Music | ||
| Jazz Records (On Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk) Whitney Balliett | p. 559 | |
| Man with a Manner (On Glenn Gould at Carnegie Hall) Winthrop Sargeant | p. 561 | |
| Jazz Records (On Coleman Hawkins) Whitney Balliett | p. 563 | |
| Part 7 | Poetry A Note Paul Muldoon | p. 571 |
| Boy at the Window Richard Wilbur | p. 574 | |
| Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze Theodore Roethke | p. 574 | |
| Love for a Hand Karl Shapiro | p. 576 | |
| The Artist William Carlos Williams | p. 577 | |
| Living in Sin Adrienne Cecile Rich | p. 578 | |
| Questions of Travel Elizabeth Bishop | p. 579 | |
| Sparrows Hayden Carruth | p. 581 | |
| First Things First W. H. Auden | p. 582 | |
| Voices from the Other World James Merrill | p. 583 | |
| Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor Sylvia Plath | p. 585 | |
| Just How Low Can a Highbrow Go When a Highbrow Lowers His Brow? Ogden Nash | p. 588 | |
| The Arctic Ox Marianne Moore | p. 589 | |
| The Goodnight Louis Simpson | p. 591 | |
| Lying Awake W. D. Snodgrass | p. 593 | |
| The Road Back Anne Sexton | p. 594 | |
| Part 8 | Fiction: A Note Jonathan Franzen | p. 597 |
| Taste Roald Dahl | p. 601 | |
| No Place for You, My Love Eudora Welty | p. 614 | |
| The Other Paris Mavis Gallant | p. 632 | |
| Six Feet of the Country Nadine Gordimer | p. 652 | |
| Pnin Vladimir Nabokov | p. 663 | |
| The State of Grace Harold Brodkey | p. 677 | |
| The Country Husband John Cheever | p. 687 | |
| The Happiest I've Been John Updike | p. 711 | |
| Defender of the Faith Philip Roth | p. 725 | |
| Acknowledgments | p. 753 | |
| Contributors | p. 755 |
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