Sunday, April 26, 2009

The 1950s: delightful or depressing?


Those who remember the 1950s as fabulous either weren't there or are wearing the rosiest of rose-colored glasses. Can you say Korea? Can you say segregation? Can you say McCarthyism? Can you say sexism? Great music and movies, though.

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She was decidedly unattractive, and to look at her might want to make you smirk. Then she opened her mouth and the world fell in love. Susan Boyle? No, Eleanor Roosevelt, 70 years before Susan. Unlike Susan's, Eleanor's voice was strange but her words were golden.

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I am tall but life is short.

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Digital cameras have done more for the environment than Al Gore. No more  Polaroid papers slathered with chemicals. No more yellow Kodak boxes littering the landscape.

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Yesterday my blogging earned me a penny. So proud.


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