I'm glad to have put in a nickel in your slot ... wait, that came out wrong ... anyway, yes. This is exactly right: the 1940s were much more about the 1930s than they were the 1950s, especially in terms of sexual mores. Another way to same the same thing would be to say that nobody ever knows what's going to happen next (a very hard thing to remember when writing or teaching history.)
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Date: 2012-06-20 02:19 am (UTC)I'm glad to have put in a nickel in your slot ... wait, that came out wrong ... anyway, yes. This is exactly right: the 1940s were much more about the 1930s than they were the 1950s, especially in terms of sexual mores. Another way to same the same thing would be to say that nobody ever knows what's going to happen next (a very hard thing to remember when writing or teaching history.)