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Good-by to the 'fifties—and good riddance:
The Stuffy Decade produced some of the most wonderful nonsense in history—but why didn't anybody laugh?

By Eric Frederick Goldman



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SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; 1945-1960; 1953-1961; Nineteen fifties
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December 2009

THE GENERAL ELECTRIC SUPERFRAUD
Why the Hudson River Will Never Run Clean
By David Gargill

THE MASTER OF SPIN BOLDAK
Undercover with Afghanistan’s Drug-Trafficking Border Police
By Matthieu Aikins

MERMAID FEVER
A story by Steven Millhauser

UNDERSTANDING OBAMACARE
By Luke Mitchell

Also: Dave Hickey and Wendell Berry

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