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Conformity and Challenges in the Eisenhower and Kennedy Years 367 Levittown was homogenous and conformist, but it was a bulwark ...

368 ChaPter^7 and even clothing–the gray flannel suit–that everyone else had. To reject these conventions, as Homer Simpson did, ...

Conformity and Challenges in the Eisenhower and Kennedy Years 369 recalled feeling safe in their new suburban home, or taking a ...

370 ChaPter^7 Music as Politics In 1949 and 1950 the noted jazz trumpet player and composer Miles Davis recorded a series of s ...

Conformity and Challenges in the Eisenhower and Kennedy Years 371 became a powerful voice for Black Americans who, especially af ...

372 ChaPter^7 hard drug use]. While “weed” would become the most popular recreational drug in America in the 1960s and the sourc ...

Conformity and Challenges in the Eisenhower and Kennedy Years 373 written by Leadbelly. In 1955, as noted, he was called before ...

374 ChaPter^7 “Rockin’ and Rollin” While folk kept its association with political and protest music throughout the 1950s, a new ...

Conformity and Challenges in the Eisenhower and Kennedy Years 375 millions of Americans, including parents, ministers, teachers, ...

376 ChaPter^7 his moves. Known as “Elvis the Pelvis,” he shocked an older, and more “decent,” generation with his gyrating hips ...

Conformity and Challenges in the Eisenhower and Kennedy Years 377 known role was as Jim Stark, a high school “rebel” who ran int ...

378 ChaPter^7 Paintings of Protest Traditionally, paintings hung in museums had aesthetic beauty. They were often images of natu ...

Conformity and Challenges in the Eisenhower and Kennedy Years 379 Reminiscent of Leadbelly’s story in “Bourgeois Blues,” Watson ...

380 ChaPter^7 sofa. In the center was a body-builder wearing only a speedo and holding a lollipop, with clear homoerotic overton ...

Conformity and Challenges in the Eisenhower and Kennedy Years 381 called them “angelheaded hipsters,” a phrase that would resona ...

382 ChaPter^7 political, an attack on conformist culture, on militarism and war, on racial and sexual attitudes, and on the very ...

Conformity and Challenges in the Eisenhower and Kennedy Years 383 Hefner and Gaines Virtually everyone in the U.S. knows who Hug ...

384 ChaPter^7 Bill Gaines first published Mad Magazine in 1952. He had been in the com- ics industry for some time already, and ...

Conformity and Challenges in the Eisenhower and Kennedy Years 385 strongest, and a larger percentage of American workers were in ...

386 ChaPter^7 will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.... ...