ABSTRACT
The two decades following World War II were characterized in the United States at large by both the optimism of economic expansion and the anxiety of the Cold War, with its issues of nuclear threat and deterrence. The relative social conservatism of the 1950s, with an emphasis on conformity, gave way to the social liberalism of the 1960s, with an emphasis on dissent. The trend was toward valuing independence of thought and having the intellectual integrity to “tell it like it is” (Landon, 1998).
