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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.
You have to remember that I was an Australian girl of the Fifties and Sixties. For Australians at that time, it was imperative to get out of the country and discover the world.
The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.
I never went overseas until I left school and joined West Ham United Football Club at the beginning of the Sixties.
By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam.
I grew up in the Fifties and Sixties and remember how unpleasant all kinds of food could be then.
I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.
One of the things that fascinates me most about the toys of the Sixties and Seventies is that they were characters without stories, as such.
I'm basically as shy a person as I was when I once worked in an office in London in the late Sixties. I like my own company. I didn't need a lot of friends.
You go through these phases. That's how life is. Over the long term, you just can't do one thing. I saw that back in the Sixties when I was getting started.
The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.
I kind of just want to look like a cool French girl in the Sixties most of the time. Or TLC.
When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.
There's not that many people from the sixties who have progressed as writers and are continuing on. They're out there. But I'm one of them who's just continued on, following his own little inner madness.
I look at couples in the street who are in their sixties and have been together for 40 years, and they're my idols. That's Ice and me for sure.
In the late Fifties and early Sixties, I used to think that most of these fashion creators weren't that great, and if the photograph was good, it was mostly thanks to the photographer.
Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was actually quite the contrary.
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.
When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks... hardcore... like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.
Of course, I remember when everybody was thin. It wasn't until I went to America in the Sixties that I saw anyone who wasn't skinny thin.
I was trying to organise my DVDs into a sort of chronological order, and I am afraid that it all trailed off after the Sixties.
I was a feminist in the Sixties, and can you imagine? The worst thing I could have done was to be in fashion. It was the most uncomfortable position.
The whole British music scene of the mid-sixties had a pretty profound effect on me.
Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.
I feel that the social revolution of the sixties is like a revolving door that came our way, and then left. It's back again.
How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!
You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.
My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
I was in college in the sixties when movies really got good. I'm a fan of Bergman and Hitchcock and Polanski and Antonioni. Those are my gods.
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them.
The cultural products of America from this period [ fifties and sixties] are like a vision of paradise or something. I find it utterly intoxicating.
The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons.
I wasn't part of any sixties movement. I'm skeptical of movements. I'm part of the times that I'm in.
I think women were gradually becoming more independent - the feminist movement of the Sixties didn't just spring out of nowhere.
In the sixties when Paul was with the Beatles and I was with the Moody Blues, we shared the same bill and tried to blow each other off the stage.
I've been combing through the Wolverine archives and advertisements from the sixties and seventies. I'm looking to take inspiration from designs of the past and bring them into the future.
When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks hardcore like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.
Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful.
It was such an amazing time for music in the Sixties. When popular music hit me, it was like magic was in the air.
In the very early Seventies and the very late Sixties, nobody out here was originally from L.A.
Culture and politics were inseparable [in the Sixties], which gave a soundtrack to political awareness and activism.
That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: 'Go away, you bunch of boring people.
In space-flight terms, six landings on the moon back in the Sixties and Seventies doesn't mean much.
You got two black folk representing us through the Sixties. One of them was for violence, one was against it, and they both are dead.
But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood there and shook their hair.
It's the audiences that inspire me to keep going. I feel that we all grew up together. The majority now are the people who were raised on the music in the Sixties.
I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.
In the sixties, during the Vietnam war, when anarchists and pacifists and socialists, Democrats and Republicans, decent-hearted Americans, all recoiled with horror at the bloodbath, we came together.
The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not sufficient to meet the challenges of the seventies.
On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.
The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity -- the incredibly outgoing energy -- of righteous rage.
I am inclined to put the zenith of success-the time of most consideration and public labor -as somewhere in the sixties, say from sixty-five to seventy.
When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.
I was fortunate to spend the Sixties working for one of the greatest football minds this country has ever produced: Ron Greenwood.
Richard Barager has written THE novel of the Sixties - a passion-filled, pitch-perfect, roller coaster of a tale about the decade that divides us all.
As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, as I saw it.
In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
