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Backwards and forwards and backwards, with a certain sameness of referrals (James Bond and The Beatles and Mary Quant, ditto, ditto and ditto) this is a look at the '50's and the '60's in England to show the "psychic epidemic" which took place there, not of course in isolation. The term along with the central idea which Booker reached (this was a time of collective fantasy and as such disintegrative) is borrowed from lung. Unintentionally Booker has also borrowed a certain muzziness when it comes to overall application and conclusion. On the other hand he gives a fairly good arti-factual documentation of what went on particularly in the media (book by play) but also economically, culturally, politically as all authoritative substructures yielded to the new aggressive projection of excitement, compulsive hipness and the immediacy of sensation. Even though it was not really new (the term square for instance originated in 1770), and Booker equates the whole trend with the 19th century romantics. He also contends that its "grand climacteric" was reached in 1963 and in a final chapter, again prompted by Jung, suggests that the return to reality can be accomplished via religion, Mr. Booker was a television script-writer and also a Spectator columnist but the book is best read as a spot check on those are the years that were. (Kirkus Reviews)
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Around the mid-1950s, on a wave of technological advances, Western civilisation moved into a period of prosperity dwarfing anything that had ever gone before. How golden was this age of affluence? How did it come to spawn a legend? The Fifties and Sixties are said to have witnessed sexual, artistic and scientific revolutions, the explosion of youth culture, the creation of a classless society. The New Aristocrats were pop singers, clothes designers, actors and actresses, film-makers, photographers, artists, writers, models and restaurateurs. Christopher Booker disentangles fantasy and reality, the ephemeral from the enduring. He charts the rise and fall of a collective dream.
Backwards and forwards and backwards, with a certain sameness of referrals (James Bond and The Beatles and Mary Quant, ditto, ditto and ditto) this is a look at the '50's and the '60's in England to show the "psychic epidemic" which took place there, not of course in isolation. The term along with the central idea which Booker reached (this was a time of collective fantasy and as such disintegrative) is borrowed from lung. Unintentionally Booker has also borrowed a certain muzziness when it comes to overall application and conclusion. On the other hand he gives a fairly good arti-factual documentation of what went on particularly in the media (book by play) but also economically, culturally, politically as all authoritative substructures yielded to the new aggressive projection of excitement, compulsive hipness and the immediacy of sensation. Even though it was not really new (the term square for instance originated in 1770), and Booker equates the whole trend with the 19th century romantics. He also contends that its "grand climacteric" was reached in 1963 and in a final chapter, again prompted by Jung, suggests that the return to reality can be accomplished via religion, Mr. Booker was a television script-writer and also a Spectator columnist but the book is best read as a spot check on those are the years that were. (Kirkus Reviews)
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Around the mid-1950s, on a wave of technological advances, Western civilisation moved into a period of prosperity dwarfing anything that had ever gone before. How golden was this age of affluence? How did it come to spawn a legend? The Fifties and Sixties are said to have witnessed sexual, artistic and scientific revolutions, the explosion of youth culture, the creation of a classless society. The New Aristocrats were pop singers, clothes designers, actors and actresses, film-makers, photographers, artists, writers, models and restaurateurs. Christopher Booker disentangles fantasy and reality, the ephemeral from the enduring. He charts the rise and fall of a collective dream.
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