The '50s and the '70s are sort of similar in that they're both times of major paranoia in America.
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The '50s were a secretive time.
My access point to the '70s is films from that time, and they all have that paranoiac quality.
There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant.
I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late '50s, early '60s kind of world.
The '50s were terrifying with nuclear bomb stuff but boring in a social way, and then the '60s were happening, and remember, there was no AIDS.
In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War.
People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.
There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.
You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.
The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.
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