Example sentences of "of [art] sixties " in BNC.
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1 | Heirs to the freedoms which , on the threshold of the Sixties , Take a girl like you may be thought to have assisted in inaugurating , but which it also contrived to criticise , young people now seem to feel that the old Patrick belonged to a sexist work , and they may well feel that the old Adam has surfaced again in the new Patrick . |
2 | It informs us of the ‘ forces ’ which shaped Roth 's tours de force of the Sixties and early Seventies , and it informs us of how he came to be where he is now . |
3 | Even Terry Eagleton , the eminent Marxist now installed at Oxford to teach critical theory exclusively , has , as I have elsewhere argued , never completely escaped from the Leavisite Cambridge of the sixties . |
4 | In a masterly television interview on Sunday , John Smith , the shadow Chancellor , exuded competence and an almost Gladstonian fiscal probity , but there was a ring of the Sixties about the accompanying discussion between MPs and experts which left the impression that , in squaring circles , the Labour Party remains endemically the party of inflation . |
5 | Each is meant to be an improvement on the overwhelming developers architecture of the Sixties , of which Hammersmith is a shrine . |
6 | In the past week I have seen an exhibition of photographs by Lewis Morley — billed as ‘ Photographer of the Sixties ’ — at the National Portrait Gallery and I have reviewed elsewhere Paparazzo ! , a collection of pavement snaps , taken during the Thatcher years , more or less , by someone called Richard Young . |
7 | Appropriately for what was a non-communication , middle-class-prison piece , Sir Peter Hall , an infrequent visitor to this medium , adopted the look of those Losey-Pinter films of the Sixties ; the domestic made menacing . |
8 | There is a paternalistic assumption lurking here , which reminds me of that which led to the disastrous council housing estates of the Sixties and early Seventies . |
9 | There will be no stay of execution and few mourners for this spoiled concrete child of the Sixties . |
10 | It is a local landmark which received national and international recognition and helped turn the tide against the thoughtless demolition of the Sixties . |
11 | Yet , compared with the literary censorship of the sixties , these were in most areas miniscule . |
12 | ‘ No first night of the sixties was more volcanic than that of What the Butler Saw ’ , says Orton 's biographer , John Lahr ; while Stanley Baxter , who played Dr Prentice , has recalled the ‘ militant hate ’ of the audience , some of whom ‘ wanted to jump on the stage and kill us ’ ( Lahr , Prick Up Your Ears , 333 — 4 ) . |
13 | If one only takes educational institutions such as universities and colleges , let alone the world outside , the emancipatory impulse of the sixties and early seventies has been turned inside out . |
14 | After a sound seven-year grounding as a buyer for La Rinascente — Italy 's answer to Selfridges — he started designing menswear for Italian fashion giant of the Sixties and Seventies , Nino Cerruti . |
15 | In the 1920s , an uncle founded the Barrandov film studios that were to have their finest hour with the Czech New Wave of the Sixties , and his father was responsible for and owned , among other buildings , the Lucerna block in the heart of the city which has been part of the life of most Pragers , with its remarkable collection of art-deco restaurants , bars , cinemas and concert hall . |
16 | With its maddened strings , echo-chamber vocal and the odd filigree of lonesome country whistling , it is vaguely suggestive of the sixties pop-melodrama of ‘ Wichita Lineman ’ or ‘ Something 's Gotten Hold of My Heart ’ . |
17 | She seemed a bright , unthinking product of the sixties , intent on enjoying herself when everybody else had settled down . |
18 | We are prepared to question some of the cult phrases of the sixties and seventies and the level of involvement they advocated . |
19 | De Niro 's lengthy career began in small theatre productions at the start of the Sixties , and has included two Academy Awards ( for Raging Bull and The Godfather II ) and a collaboration with Martin Scorsese which produced some of the best films to come out of the ‘ New Hollywood ’ of the Seventies . |
20 | There is some hammy acting , but the film gives an interesting insight into the gangster scene of the Sixties . |
21 | Flatliners ' little hallucinatory moral dramas of American atonement ( and even perhaps the other ghost movies ) , have their roots in a different gimmick film Field Of Dreams , which turned the social and political divisions of the Sixties into a family affair which could be sorted by Kevin Costner throwing a baseball around with his ghost dad . |
22 | The ‘ Permissive Society ’ could be said to have begun in the cradles of the Spock babies of the Forties and Fifties , who became the student protestors of the Sixties . |
23 | lamented Philip Larkin wryly , stating the received opinion about the permissiveness of the Sixties . |
24 | FIRST NIGHT Planning the huge Billy Graham Crusades of the sixties and seventies meant starting from scratch and moving into a city or country six to eighteen months ahead . |
25 | ‘ Like all the showbands of the sixties and seventies , we had a trumpet , trombone , sax , guitar and drum line-up . |
26 | The enthusiasm of the sixties ( it was not just naivety ) would have held that education should lead the whole process , while the cynicism of the seventies and eighties would have us believe that education , that is schools at any rate , can do no more than mirror the society of which they are part . |
27 | Sussex , some long-haired , denim-clad veteran of the sixties complained , was looking more and more like a housing estate for first-time buyers . |
28 | In Nicholson 's case , however , it is more interesting and quite important to characterize the age in which he found fame — the drug infested anti-establishment set of the Vietnam era — as one of the advance guard leading the underground movements of the Sixties to the surface of American life in a cloud of head-spinning smoke , at a time when marijuana was the best cash crop in Southern California . |
29 | The Strip , at the westerly end of Sunset Boulevard and closest to the hub of the film industry , was the avenue for poseurs where every young hopeful — and plenty not so young — hung out to be discovered in one of the dozens of coffee bars that eventually gave way to rock ‘ n ’ roll clubs and then strip shows of the Sixties and Seventies . |
30 | With quotes like that , Nicholson also became tagged as a ‘ thinking ’ actor , and , in 1970 , as some of the stronger influences of the Sixties began to fall away with remarkable speed , was another influence that could be troubling any actor : the state of Hollywood itself . |