... to and comment upon, what with the first man being put into space, the nuclear arms race, continuing Cold War paranoia, the hippy movement, the rise of feminism and independent women and the Civil Rights movement. There was a very real threat of nuclear holocaust - the 1962 Cuban missile crisis had made the whole thing seem painfully plausible. The rise of mass media also indelibly affected the public consciousness, with information becoming much ... it's roots? Without the rise of public awareneess about the enviroment, without the hippy movement, would we have The Dispossessed? One of...

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