Social critics warned that all of the following were taking place in the 1950s except
a. overindulgence of children was making them passive and dependent.
b. huge corporations and government bureaucracies were encouraging anonymity and conformism.
c. business advertising was manipulating people by playing on their insecurities.
d. suburbia, because it lacked social centers, was contributing to social isolation.
e. all of these choices.
ANS: A
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