#fifties

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong. ↗

— John Major

#blocks #britain #built #communities #destroyed

In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat. ↗

— John Malkovich

#fifties #forties #hat #new #new york

I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday. ↗

— Nastassja Kinski

#billie holiday #fifties #holiday #i #i love

One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#back #country #did #fact #fifties

Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#ago #america #ancestors #came #dissenters

I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations. ↗

— Rosemary Clooney

#fabricated #felt #fifties #i #living

When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#doctor #draft #during #early #fifties

I fought for peace in the fifties. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#fought #i #peace

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#fifties #know #these #you

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#before #began #civilization #effects #especially