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| | Amazon.com: Books: The Fifties |
 | | Fifty years on, we are expected to take what is given us, whether we will or nil. |
 | | At the end of the book, I was convinced that the Fifties was perhaps one of the two or three key decades of the century, and perhaps the decade in which the world we know now, dominated by TV, mass communication, fast food, sexuality, celebrity, massive military expenditures, computers, advertising, and technology, was born. |
 | | The Fifties were more than just a mid-point decade in a century; they were to be the crucible in which the rest of the 20th century was forged. |
| www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0449909336?v=glance (2869 words) |
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