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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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