A Fifties Future — Speeded Up  1  2  3  4  5

In 1962, said one observer, "the future...appeared as a richer, easier, and speedier version of the present — not one in which cultural values and social relationships had changed, and not as one in which there existed significant limitations to America’s global power and natural environment (2)." In June, The New Yorker serialized Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, and later the admission of the University of Mississippi's first black student touched off events that foreshadowed the coming social unrest.