Popular Culture Review Vol. 4, No. 2, June 1993 | Page 17

Lear's Vision
of Modern Maturity:
The Struggle for Modernity
in the Context of Postmodernity
They said age was a vice and youth ruled America. Older
women would never look at older women, much less support a
magazine so foolhardy as to insist that age is integral to
beauty; that women over 40—yesterday's "mad housewives"—
are today's sanest, most creative, and most interesting
Americans. LEAR'S exists because the truth about reality
ultimately overwhelms the lies about