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“Everybody was pissed off in those days, but there were no socially acceptable outlets for hostility. "Hostile" was a word you heard constantly -- but it was a scolding word, like 'bad,' 'naughty,' or 'no-no.' All over this heavily psychoanalyzed country, people were saying to other people, 'Why…” quote by Albert Goldman
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““Everybody was pissed off in those days, but there were no socially acceptable outlets for hostility. "Hostile" was a word you heard constantly -- but it was a scolding word, like 'bad,' 'naughty,' or 'no-no.' All over this heavily psychoanalyzed country, people were saying to other people, 'Why are you being so hostile? . . . That's a hostile remark! . . . There's a lot of hostility behind something like that!' It was an incredible age, the fifties! An age of stifled violence obsessing about THE BOMB!””

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