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This is to say, while most scholars identify a general loosening of sexual attitudes during the forties and fifties, they do not detect a significant upswing in premarital sexual behavior until the 1960s.

But why did the fifties prefer these euphemisms to the expression itself?

"We have our own syllabus." When a Balanchine ballet is performed by PNB (Russell has staged seventeen of their twenty-five in the repertoire, and one hundred throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, China, and Russia), the Stowells go back, in setting the work, to the late fifties and sixties when they both were in New York City Ballet.

As a result, many residential buildings constructed in the Fifties and Sixties have become anachronyms.

The fifties were a tough decade for the left in America.

[8] These are crucial qualifications, but they should discipline rather than displace an examination of the discourse of working class transformation in the fifties. Though it clearly animated and has continued to animate discussions of class structure and political strategy from the 1950s to the 1980s, the historical context of working class structure, outlook and identity in Britain during the 1950s remains under-examined.

This companion volume draws upon Reedy's earlier experiences as director of the Senate Majority Policy Committee in the fifties. Judging from the dreary title, Reedy (or perhaps his publisher) apparently intended this book to be a contemporary, political-sciencey tract that makes a case for a slow-moving Senate.

Wildt rejects the image of steady progress that has accompanied accounts of the "Economic Miracle," insisting instead on discontinuities and interruptions in patterns of consumption in the late forties and fifties, punctuated by an abrupt change in consumer behavior at the end of the 1950s.