The 50s
Subtitle: the story of a decade
By: The New Yorker ; edited by Henry Finder ; introduction by David Remnick
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 764
ISBN-13: 9780679644811
Subjects: Civilization; Nineteen fifties
Other titles: Fifties; New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)
Description: A look back at the 1950s chronicles the tensions and innovations that lay behind the decade's more placid surface during a time of prosperity and contradiction.
Table of contents: title: Part one.; title: American scenes  -- a note by Elizabeth Kolbert.; title: Success (on Jackie Robinson, V salesman)  -- John Graham and Rex Lardner; title: Fallout (on radioactive debris)  -- Daniel Lang; title: Ahab and nemesis (on Rocky Marciano vs. Archie Moore)  -- A.J. Liebling; title: Mr. Hunter's grave (on a Staten Island cemetery)  -- Joseph Mitchell; title: The cherubs are rumbling (on juvenile gangs) -- Walter Bernstein; title: Part two.; title: Artists & entertainers  -- a note by Rebecca Mead.; title: The perfect glow (on Oscar Hammerstein II)  -- (Philip Hamburger; title: Throw the little old lady down the stairs! (on John Huston and the making of The red badge of courage)  -- Lillian Ross; title: Humility, concentration, and gusto (on Marianne Moore)  -- Winthrop Sargeant; title: The duke in his domain (on Marlon Brando in Kyoto)  -- Truman  Capote; title: A woman entering a taxi in the rain (on Richard Avedon) -- Winthrop Sargeant; title: Part three.; title: Shifting grounds  -- a note by Jill Lepore.; title: The foolingh things of the world (on Dorothy Day)  -- Dwight MacDonald; title: Notes and comment (on the case against Senator McCarthy)  -- E.B. White; title: The psychosemanticist will see you now, Mr. Thurber (on fifties jargon)  -- James Thurber; title: A meeting in Atlanta (on the NAACP assembly)  -- Bernard Taper; title: Letter from Chicago (on the Democratic Convention)  -- Richard H. Rovere; title: Letter from San Francisco (on the Republican Convention)  -- Richard Rovere; title: Letter from Washington (on Eisenhower and Little Rock) -- Richard H. Rovere; title: Part four.; title: Far-flung  -- a note by Evan Osnos.; title: No one but the Glosters (on a Korean War battle)  -- E.J. Kahn, Jr.; title: The seventeenth of June (on an uprising in East Germany)  -- Joseph Wechsberg; title: The old boys (on Chiang Kai-Shek)  -- Emily Hahn; title: Letters from Paris  (on the Algerian War)  -- Janet Flanner; title: Letter from Gaza (on refugees in the Strip)  -- A. J. Liebling; title: Cuban interlude (on Cuba and its rebels) -- Norman Lewis; title: Part Five.; title: Takes  -- a note by Malcolm Gladwell.; title: Characters.; title: Ernest Hemingway  -- Lillian Ross; title: Jackson Pollock  -- Berton Roueché; title: Toots Shor  -- John Bainbridge; title: Harold Ross  -- E.B. White; title: Sylvester Weaver  -- Thomas Whiteside; title: Emily Post  -- Geoffrey T. Hellman; title: Frank Lloyd Wright  -- Geoffrey T. Hellman; title: Bobby Fischer  -- Bernard Taper; title: Mort Sahl  -- Whitney Balliett; title: Leonard Bernstein  -- Robert Rice; title: Lorraine Hansberry  -- Lillian Ross; title: Computers.; title: I.B.M.s new brain  -- John Brooks; title: The Nim machine  -- Rex Lardner; title: Data processing systems  -- John Brooks; title: Election results via Univac  -- Philip Hamburger; title: The perceptron simulator  -- Harding Mason; title: Curious developments.; title: The home freezer  -- Brendan Gill; title: Jazz class at Columbia  -- Whitney Balliett; title: Vaccinating against polio  -- John McNulty; title: Marketing Miltown  -- Thomas Whiteside; title: Rock 'n' roll's young enthusiasts  -- Dwight MacDonald; title: The push-button phone  -- Harriet Ben Exra; title: The arrival of videotape  -- Louis P. Forster; title: The quiz-show scandals -- John Updike; title: Part six.; title: The critics  -- a note by Adam Gopnik.; title: Books.; title: The vision of the innocent (on The catcher in the rye by J.D. Salinger  -- S.N. Behrman; title: Green on Doting (on Henry Green)  -- V. S. Pritchett; title: Black man's burden (on Invisible man by Ralph Ellison)  -- Anthony West; title: The book-of-the-millenium club (on Mortimer Adler's great books set)  -- Dwight MacDonald; title: Doctor life and his guardian angel (on Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak)  -- Edmund Wilson.; title: The current cinema.; title: Good tough stuff (on On the waterfront)  -- John McCarten; title: No sanctuary (on The 400 blows)  -- John McCarten; title: The theatre.; title: Bouquets, brickbats, and obituaries (on Guys and dolls)  -- Wolcott Gibbs; title: Something to remember us by (on Cat on a hot tin roof)  -- Wolcott Gibbs; title: Beep the meem (on Marcel Marceau)  -- Wolcott Gibbs; title: Shaw with music (on My fair lady)  -- Wolcott Gibbs; title: Points west (on A raisin in the sun)  -- Kenneth Tynan; title: Cornucopia (on Gypsy)  -- Kenneth Tynan; title: Television.; title: Peeping Funt (on Candid camera)  -- Philip Hamburger; title: Bananas in general (on TV comedians)  -- John Lardner; title: Thoughts on Radio-Televese (on on-the-air language)  -- John Lardner; title: Art & architecture.; title: Extremeists (on Jackson Pollock et al.)  -- Robert M. Coates; title: Styles and personalities (on an Abstract expressionism show)  -- Robert M. Coates; title: The mud wasps of Manhattan (on tall buildings gone wrong)  -- Lewis Mumford; title: The roaring traffic's boom (on a congested metropolis)  -- Lewis Mumford; title: The lesson of the master (on the Seagram building)  -- Lewis Mumford; title: Music.; title: Jazz records (on Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk)  -- Whitney Balliett; title: Man with a manner (on Glenn Gould at Carnegie Hall)  -- Winthrop Sargeant; title: Jazz records (on Coleman Hawkins) -- Whitney Balliett; title: Part seven.; title: Poetry  -- a note by Paul Muldoon.; title: Boys at the window  -- Richard Wilbur; title: Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze  -- Theodore Roethke; title: Love for a hand  -- Karl Shapiro; title: The artist  -- William Carlos Williams; title: Living in sin  -- Adrienne Cecile Rich; title: Questions of travel  -- Elizabeth Bishop; title: Sparrows  -- Hayden Carruth; title: First things first  -- W.H. Auden; title: Voices from the other world  -- James Merrill; title: Mussel hunter at Rock Harbor  -- Sylvia Plath; title: Just how low can a highbrow go when a highbrow lowers his brow?  -- Ogden Nash; title: The arctic ox  -- Marianne Moore; title: The goodnight  -- Louis Simpson; title: Lying awake  -- W. D. Snodgrass; title: The road back -- Anne Sexton; title: Part eight.; title: Fiction  -- a note by Jonathan Franzen.; title: Taste  -- Roald Dahl; title: No place for you, my love  -- Eudora Welty; title: The other Paris  -- Mavis Gallant; title: Six feet of the country  -- Nadine Gordimer; title: Pnin  -- Vladimir Nabokov; title: The state of grace  -- Harold Brodkey; title: The country husband  -- John Cheever; title: The happiest I've been  -- John Updike; title: Defender of the faith -- Philip Roth.