Content tagged 1950s

Blog Entries

Wow, there exists someone who doesn’t like The Catcher in the Rye! And (partly) because the writing is bad!? I admit the dialog sounds a little … gulfstream/1589

Branding America: “… in the Soviet Union of the 1950s and ’60s, there was Pravda on the one hand, Voice of America on the other. The former … gulfstream/1709

Why there’s a shot clock in basketball: in the 1950s, before the shot clock, teams would stall after claiming an early lead, resulting in slow, dull … gulfstream/2139

Quotes Collected

In 1959, exactly thirty years after the Great Crash, an event took place that made absolutely no sense in the light of history. Up to the late 1950s, … quotes/395

The Navy, in its new official line, had come full circle: from an abhorrence of city destruction in 1950 to its doctrinal glorification in 1958. The … quotes/269