The 1950s are disappearing from view, almost from memory. They turn out to have been an interlude between two periods of social strain and corresponding unrest. The Cold War may be getting less dangerous, but there is no let-up politically
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These stresses, and the intellectual problems to which they give rise
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For it is a Marxist analysis that is offered here
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