Legenday big band singer, actress.......from a simpler time.
A simpler time?
What prompts folk to say that about earlier times, I do not know.
Perhaps they look at those movies and consider them as documentaries?
Doris Day's life line a simpler time than ours?
No way.
Born in 1922.
People were still making their own soap by hand, and only three percent of farms had electricity by 1930. Is it simpler to do things by hand and without electricity? Depends on what you mean by simple, I suppose.
Great Depression hit when she was a kid.
World War struck before she reached twenty.
Hydrogen bomb developed before she reached thirty.
In 1939, Roosevelt created the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department. It started prosecutions to combat lynching, but failed to win any convictions until 1946.
Jim Crow laws remained in place until the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the many lawsuits that followed to clear racist laws off the book in the old confederacy states, especially.
She was married FOUR times.
Do the Vietnam War times seem simple to anyone?
If you wanted to research anything, anything at all, you had to drive to the local library and get a big stack of books out on a table. If it was anything very difficult, you had to drive to a University library. Finding out about things was NOT a simple proposition.
Forty two percent of the adults in the US smoked tobacco as of 1965, when records started being kept about it. Tobacco companies used to tell people cigarettes were good for them, even though the companies knew that their products were harmful.
There was a major riot in the streets of every single US city with over one million in population in 1967. Are things now more complicated than that?
Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman elected to congress, and that did not happen until 1968.
Until the 1970s a man could not be convicted of raping his wife, as the complainant is such a case could not be the wife of the accused by statute.
Was Watergate a simple matter, or Iran Contra, considered simple?
The violent crime rate rose from 288,500ish to 739,000ish from 1960 to 1970, and crimes against black people were often not even counted.
Rose colored glasses about the past can give people a false idea about the times we are living in now.