Tolstoy - 'Anna Karenina'
blacklight
quotable: ‘Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is
unhappy in its own way.’
Happy Christmas – Klaus
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Quotations etc etc
BlackWidow
>�Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is
> unhappy in its own way.�
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Oh, we all played the game "Happy Families" as kids...
...
The building up of a family is a manufacture very little above the
building of a house of cards.
~ George Savile, Lord Halifax 1633�1695, The Works of George Savile
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//BlackWidow
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SteveMR200
<7VdYm.64104$ze1....@news-server.bigpond.net.au>:
>On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:26:00 -0800 (PST), blacklight wrote in message:
><752ee2c3-fa35-435e...@f20g2000prn.googlegroups.com>:
>
>>'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is
>> unhappy in its own way.'
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>
>Oh, we all played the game "Happy Families" as kids...
>
>...
>The building up of a family is a manufacture very little above the
>building of a house of cards.
>~ George Savile, Lord Halifax 1633-1695, The Works of George Savile
Years later, many Americans referred to the fifties
as "happy days." From the perspective of the older
generation, the decade was an immense improvement
over the previous era of depression and war. . . .
The gross national product nearly doubled during the
decade, inflation remained low, and the invention of
credit cards contributed to mass consumption. The
purchasing power of citizens increased 50 percent
during the decade. The average home contained seven
times more equipment than one in the twenties, and
for the first time that included a television;
Americans bought 50 million TVs by 1960.
Detroit revved into high gear, manufacturing almost
60 million automobiles, meaning that for the first
time almost every american family could own at least
one car.
The era was symbolized by the drive-in--either for
fast food or for movies. Parents smiled as they
drove to new shopping malls, and kids smiled as they
received an endless supply of fads--saddle shoes,
Barbie dolls, stacks of 45 rpm records.
Parents bought $100 million worth of Davy Crockett
coonskin hats, while in just a few months of 1958
kids bought 20 million hula hoops. . . .
Furthermore, the fifties were happy days because of
kids and family. After Dad returned from coaching
his son in Little League, after Mom picked up her
daughter at the Girl Scout meeting, families sat in
their living rooms and watched TV shows that
emphasized traditional values and wholesome life:
Leave It to Beaver, Ozzie and Harriet, The Donna
Reed Show, Father Knows Best.
There were only three national TV networks then, and
unlike later times when numerous channels emphasized
sensationalism and negativism, the message in the
fifties was patriotic, positive, and homogenized.
The fifties were the Wonder Bread decade: Campbell's
soup, Jell-O, Velveeta. Everyone seemed the
same--and that happy message was broadcast prime
time.
--Terry H. Anderson (1946- )
_The Sixties_ [2004], "Cold War America:
Seedbed of the 1960s"
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Steve
BlackWidow
> Years later, many Americans referred to the fifties
> as "happy days."
I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to
be illusions.
~Taylor Caldwell 1900-85
SteveMR200
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>I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them
>turned out to be illusions.
>~Taylor Caldwell 1900-85
I've looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose, and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all
--Joni Mitchell (1943- )
_Both Sides, Now_ [1969] (song)
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Steve
BlackWidow
>> I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them
>> turned out to be illusions.
>> ~Taylor Caldwell 1900-85
>
> I've looked at life from both sides now
> From win and lose, and still somehow
> It's life's illusions I recall
> I really don't know life at all
> --Joni Mitchell (1943- )
> _Both Sides, Now_ [1969] (song)
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Most people, I'm convinced don't think about life at all. They grab what
they think they want and the subsequent consequences keep them busy in
an endless chain till they are carried out feet first.
~ Philip Larkin 1922-85, letter to J.B. Sutton (Oct 30, 1949) in
Anthony Thwaite Selected Letters of Philip Larkin (1992)