![]() ![]() Publicity of Ragle as local winner was good for the local paper. He works as hard as anyone who works full-time, simply to keep winning the contests, and he has won two years in a row–national champion, his photo published in the newspaper. Margo’s brother Ragle, irresponsible, single, 46 years old and flirts with the neighbor’s wife, lives with Vic and Margo and spends the day answering contest entries in the newspaper. Familiar? A normal family: Vic who works the registers at the grocery store, stay-at-home wife but civically active Margo, and son Sammy. A time when Charles Van Doren was winning game shows on television. Dick wrote Time Out of Joint that we meet Vic and Ragle and Margo and Junie and Bill. Of course Time Out of Joint could take place anywhere, but it is roughly 1958 when Philip K. But even if you grew up in the 1970s you got to see everything your parents watched because of the miracle of cable TV. That is of course because of television, because movies had color in the 1950s. Imagine back to the world of the Twilight Zone, but the Twilight Zone neighborhoods before weird things start to happen. When Sandra Dee didn’t have to worry about her future but could smile and make everyone happy on the big screen. Imagine the era of the Cleavers in Leave it to Beaver. We know that Tucker’s automobile would not get very far. We know that Marilyn Monroe would die young. Comparing ourselves to readers in the 1950s we know that we never made it to Venus colonization in the 1990s. Like McCarthyism and later like Watergate, certain events poke at the public and make you question what is going on around you. Today we know what happened to Charles Van Doren, either through living through the aftermath of the quiz show scandals or watching the movie Quiz Show. ![]()
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