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    My childhood was a happy one. Unless I’ve Repressed it.

    FEBRUARY 15, 2013 1:05PM

    By Ramona Grigg


    Topics: writing, childhood, respession, humor, french revolution, 1950s

    • 0 Ratings
    • 81 Views
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    1950s and Taxes

    OCTOBER 11, 2012 4:54AM

    By Ilya Shambat


    Topics: budget, economy, taxes, clinton, 1950s, government, prosperity, eisenhower

    • Editor's Pick
    • 30 Ratings
    • 4666 Views
    • 39 Comments
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    10 Observations from Perusing 1950s Issues of Playboy

    SEPTEMBER 18, 2012 2:24PM

    By Kathy Peacock


    Topics: humor, 1950s, magazines, publishing, playboy, hugh hefner

    • 10 Ratings
    • 794 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    THE BEACH BOYS: Republican America

    SEPTEMBER 4, 2012 1:43AM

    By old new lefty


    Topics: music, politics, economy, gossip, beach boys, gop, america, 1950s, 1960s, gtos, camaros, mustangs, lexuses, upper middle class america, al jardine, mike love, lenin's tomb, global trade, brian wilson, a time long ago.

    • 0 Ratings
    • 470 Views
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    Thoughts on the KKK convention that I didn't watch

    AUGUST 31, 2012 4:11PM

    By Robert Crook


    Topics: 1950s, barack obama, chris matthews, clint eastwood, clintonistas, cna, democratic party, florida, generation x, medicare, mitt, mitt romney, mittens, mittens romney, obama, patricia carroll, paul ryan, politics, president barack obama, president obama, racism, racists, republican national convention, republican party, romney, ryan, social security, white supremacism, white supremacists, politics

    • 0 Ratings
    • 119 Views
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    OS Weekend Fiction Club--Charm Offensive (Chap8)

    JUNE 23, 2012 8:07AM

    By Willett .


    Topics: fiction, willett thomas, baltimore, 1950s, negros, family, sage

    • 2 Ratings
    • 151 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    OS Weekend Fiction Club--Charm Offensive (Chap7)

    JUNE 16, 2012 10:58AM

    By Willett .


    Topics: fiction, serialization, novel, willett thomas, negros, african american, 1950s, baltimore

    • 0 Ratings
    • 103 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    OS Weekend Fiction Club--Charm Offensive (Chap6)

    JUNE 8, 2012 8:16AM

    By Willett .


    Topics: willett thomas, fiction, story, novel serialization, negro, 1950s, baltimore

    • 4 Ratings
    • 264 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    OS Weekend Fiction Club--Charm Offensive (Chap4)

    MAY 25, 2012 10:37AM

    By Willett .


    Topics: baltimore, willett thomas, novel serialized, satire, fiction, 1950s, negro, african american, sage, family

    • 0 Ratings
    • 179 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    OS Weekend Fiction -- The Charm Offensive

    MAY 12, 2012 10:23AM

    By Willett .


    Topics: fiction, weekend, 1950s, willett thomas, short story, novel, fiction, the charm offensive, baltimore

    • 5 Ratings
    • 1035 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Two Sisters of Genoa (A Poem with Pix!)

    OCTOBER 28, 2011 11:23AM

    By toritto


    Topics: 1950s, italian liners, raffaello, michaelangelo, poetry

    • 0 Ratings
    • 147 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Achieve growth and fiscal sanity. Restore Clintonomics.

    JULY 24, 2011 9:24AM

    By Ilya Shambat


    Topics: clinton, bush, republicans, taxes, debt, deficit, 1950s, obama, baby boomers

    • 0 Ratings
    • 1242 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Ray Stricklyn & the Funeral of Isabel Jewell

    JUNE 9, 2011 1:54PM

    By prismguard


    Topics: celebrity memoirs, 1950s, robert vaughn, tab hunter, cloris leachman, marlon brando, phyllis diller, kim stanley, joan blondell, dorothy kilgallen, rock hudson, b&w perry mason series, erle stanley gardner, gary vinson, suicide, child molestation, james dean, nick adams, lawman, john russell, peter brown, ten north frederick, golden globes, montgomery clift, stuart whitman, richard chamberlain, angels & demons, gone with the wind, ronald colman, vivien leigh, tennessee williams, bette davis, pat boone, bernadine, bill gass, cremation, cosmetics, decomposition

    • 1 Ratings
    • 781 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    The Last Lady

    MAY 22, 2011 12:34AM

    By Arthur Louis


    Topics: women's movement, william colby, washington, 1950s

    • 11 Ratings
    • 435 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    Radio Man

    MAY 13, 2011 9:14PM

    By toritto


    Topics: being 13m brooklyn, heartbreak hotel, when i first heard elvis, 1950s, puppy love, poetry

    • 6 Ratings
    • 444 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    A Kid in Bensonhurst

    MAY 9, 2011 8:47PM

    By toritto


    Topics: memory, poverty, italians, rosenburgs, childhood, brooklyn, 1950s, politics, poetry, family, design

    • 0 Ratings
    • 179 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    The Choice of Joy: Day 32, Sunshine

    FEBRUARY 13, 2011 3:18PM

    By Susan Ory Powers


    Topics: sunshine, joy, technology, palin, mccarthy, 1950s, sun

    • Editor's Pick
    • 19 Ratings
    • 1949 Views
    • 48 Comments
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    Bringing Down Walls _ Berlin Was Only The Beginning!

    OCTOBER 28, 2010 2:26PM

    By SpiritManSF


    Topics: uncle joe cannon, speaker of the house, illinois, danville, obama, banking scandal, general motors, middle class, 1950s, health care, republicans, berlin wall, video, politics, news, economy, open call

    • 4 Ratings
    • 1247 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    She Was More Than Just June Cleaver

    OCTOBER 19, 2010 1:11AM

    By Reflections of a shallow pond


    Topics: barbara billingsley, leave it to beaver, june cleaver, humor, kids, family, 1950s

    • 3 Ratings
    • 3324 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Katy Perry's Got Nothing On These Old Shows

    SEPTEMBER 24, 2010 1:06PM

    By Reflections of a shallow pond


    Topics: 1970s, 1960s, 1950s, television, kids shows, kids, katy perry

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