Sanctimonious America had two basic problems with Nabokov’s Lolita, one obvious one was the fact that he was Russian and the other was the subject material – pedophilia. In 1956 Nabokov published a response to the controversy, defending his work and the attack that he was anti-American. Nabokov stated that, “Their refusal to buy the book was based not my treatment of the theme but on the theme itself…”, however, I have to disagree with Nabokov’s assumption. The American family became central to fighting against the invisible communist threat. The American people were bombarded with propaganda with the threat of the invisible enemy. The problem with Humbert Humbert was that he was intelligent and witty and very charming monster. Humbert is perfectly willing say that he is a monster, but a reader can not help find themselves less and less eager to agree with him. Because he is likable, he is perfect archetype for the invisible Cold War enemy. In describing his attraction to the nymphet, he admits that he is a monster, but Nabokov's lyrical style is just as seductive as Lolita herself: "You have to an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a super-voluptuous flame permanently aglow in your subtle spine (oh, how you have to cringe and hide!), in order to discern at once, by ineffable signs-the slightly feline outline of a cheekbone, the slenderness of a downy limb, and other indices which despair and shame and tears of tenderness forbid me to tabulate-the little deadly demon among the wholesome children; she stand unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power."
Also, the reader finds themselves laughing at very inappropriate passages in the book (especially when he refers to Charlotte Haze, Lolita's mother); one can not help but find humor in some of Humbert Humbert's language:
"Thursday. Last night we sat on the piazza, the Haze woman, Lolita and I. Warm dusk had deepened into amorous darkness. The old girl had finished relating in great detail the plot of a movie she and L. had seen sometime in the winter. . . We sat on cushions heaped on the floor, and L. was between the old girl and me (she had squeezed herself in the pet)."
Rosie the Riveter
Who was Rosie the Riveter
The song Rosie the Riveter was already popular when Actor Walter Pidgeon discovered the real thing--Rose Will Monroe, a Ford employee who built B-24 and B-29 bombers at the Willow Run Assembly Plant in Michigan.
Rose went on to make war bond promotional films and was the inspiration for the Rosie the Riveter poster, symbolizing all U.S. women who worked in manufacturing jobs to support the World War II effort.
Ronald Reagan
The perfect American male
Ronnie Reagan was consider the perfect example of the ideal masculine male. Divorced his "career" oriented wife Jane Wyman to marry Nancy Davis, an actress who promptly agreed to give up her career to be a full-time wife and mother.
Kubrick
Humbert's Lolita
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul, Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.
The Perfect Family
A Woman's Duty
"The ideological connections among early marriage, sexual containment, and traditional gender roles merged in the context of the cold war. Experts called upon women to embrace domesticity in service to the nation, in the same spirit that they had come to the contry's aid by taking wartime jobs. To meet the challenge of the postwar era, women were to marshall their energies into a "New Family Type for the Space Age." Women's domestic roles needed to be infused with a sense of national purpose."
J. Edgar Hoover
J. Edgar Hoover
"The nation's women and children will never be secure...so long as degenerates run wild."
Bill Haley and His Comets
Thirteen Women (And Only One Man In Town)
Last night I was dreamin', dreamed about the H-bomb
Well, the bomber went off and I was caught
I was the only man left on the ground.
There was thirteen women and only one man in town.
And as funny as it may be, the one and only man in town was me
Well, thirteen women and me the only man around...
I had two gals every morning, seein' that I was well fed
And believe you me, one sweetened my tea
While another one buttered my bread
Two gals gave me my money, two gals made me my clothes
And another sweet thing bought me a diamond ring
About 40 carats I suppose...
I had three gals dancin' the mambo,
Three gals ballin' -the-jack
And all of the rest really did their best
Boy, they sure were a livley pack...
I thought I was in heaven, and all of these angels were mine
But I woke up and I head for the train
'Cause I had to get to work on time....
-Bill Haley and His Comets, 1954
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