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Which topics did Robert Klein parody on the album Child of the Fifties?
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Bob Hope with men of X Corps, Wonsan, Korea, 1950.
On his 1973 Grammy-nominated album Child of the Fifties, Robert Klein used his signature observational style to parody various aspects of the Dwight D. Eisenhower era. Specifically, he lampooned the following topics:
- Uptight teachers and their classroom demands
- Duck-and-cover nuclear war paranoia
- School lunches
- Commercials
- Athletics1