Example sentences of "of [art] 1950s " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pubs of the 1950s occasionally adopted a ‘ contemporary ’ Festival of Britain look , but this was easily fused with Neo-Victorian , and has usually been swamped by later changes . |
| 2 | In his address to the 1990 CAMRA AGM , Tim May of Design House succinctly highlighted the irreconcilable conflict between the functional modernist tendencies of the 1950s and the historical vernacular pub tradition . |
| 3 | Physicalists of the 1950s and 1960s were worried by the following problem . |
| 4 | MEMORIES OF THE 1950s |
| 5 | He is , in fact , a rare surviving embodiment of those long-vanished ideals of the 1950s , when it briefly seemed that University English might provide a terrain where all these practices could converge . |
| 6 | To speak personally , I might have found life easier , though possibly less interesting , if the English synthesis had continued to exist in approximately the same state as when I became a university teacher at the end of the 1950s : a genuine humane discipline , self-respecting , enjoyable , expanding , with methods that were established and familiar , if subject to variation between the different emphases associated with Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 7 | THE SEAFRONT at Kep , on the southern coast of Cambodia , is lined with villas built in the dashing concrete style of the 1950s . |
| 8 | Inspired by their octogenarian leaders ' nostalgia , fashion designers are promising a return to the austere clothing of the 1950s , now hailed as the high-water mark of the revolutionary tradition of ‘ bitter struggle and hard living ’ . |
| 9 | Sir Alec Cairncross , himself a distinguished practitioner of the Keynesian policies of the 1950s and 1960s , ruefully recalled in 1981 that the standing of economists , which was at its peak just after the war , was now back ‘ at its pre-war low ’ . |
| 10 | The limited opportunities in terms of employment , housing , or social mobility for Britain 's urban black community , following the Commonwealth immigration of the 1950s , was one unresolved feature of the period . |
| 11 | The Tory paternalists of the 1950s seemed dated by the time of the Heath government in 1970–4 . |
| 12 | Going into manufacturing for himself , therefore , was something that came fairly easy to him and for most of the 1950s he built up a substantial furniture business . |
| 13 | There were also many years of frustration in my youth when the business was very small and I was bubbling with ideas , bubbling with energy and desperate to get things to happen but could n't in the very dull environment of the 1950s and early 1960s . |
| 14 | Perhaps the regrettable feature of the conversion of Shawell school — which is being carried out with great care and sensitivity — is the retention of the 1950s flat-roofed WCs extension which , almost gratuitously , fails to relate in any way to the form of the original building . |
| 15 | And at Ealing itself , Balcon 's post-war ambition for a cinema that would project ‘ the true Briton to the rest of the world ’ as a ‘ leader in social reform , champion of civil liberties ’ had shrivelled by the end of the 1950s to a commitment to make films about ‘ day-dreamers , mild anarchists , little men who long to kick the boss in the teeth . ’ |
| 16 | Ealing 's films of the 1950s also deal with communities , not torn apart by inner rivalries but bonded in solidarity against an external aggressor . |
| 17 | The contracting industry of the 1950s had not nurtured new talent or new ideas , as happened in the 1930s and 1940s , so that , apart from the Free Cinema directors , it was mostly a case of the same old people trying to make films . |
| 18 | While directors like Ken Russell and Nic Roeg carried on along their own idiosyncratic paths , and many of the directors who had flourished in the 1960s packed their bags for the trip to LA , there were no indications that those left behind had begun to face up to the economic realities of British film production , or what would have to be done to patch up the damage done to the craft of filmmaking , more particularly screenwriting , during the dead times of the 1950s and into the 1960s . |
| 19 | By Leonard Barden THE EASY Soviet victory in this week 's world team championship at Lucerne recalled the palmy days of the 1950s when the generation of Botvinnik and Smyslov , Bronstein and Keres , outclassed opponents . |
| 20 | From the General Staffs ’ point of view , there were some bright patches in the otherwise sombre overcast of the last years of the 1950s . |
| 21 | As I sipped my coffee , I reflected once more than the Midland Irish were very like the English of the 1950s . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's just like an English town of the 1950s , with hardly any traffic , ’ she said . |
| 23 | Ladislav himself was taken aback by the rotunda devoted to the show trials of the 1950s . |
| 24 | The casts , drawn from Glyndebourne singers of the 1950s and early '60s , with the exception of De los Angeles brought in for Rosina in Barbiere , are part of a tightly knit ensemble . |
| 25 | Candles and Dark Night describes a poetic , mythical countryside , recognisably British yet ravaged by civil war and impossible to date , though it has the atmosphere of the 1950s . |
| 26 | Although it is difficult to compare the publications of today with the comics of the 1950s , it must be pointed out that there is a surprising amount of science in today 's comics . |
| 27 | Just as officialdom saw the legendary return of salmon to the Thames as evidence that Britain 's water pollution was cured , so it gloried in the Clean Air Acts of the 1950s and turned a ‘ blind eye ’ to dying lakes , moribund trees and the links between car exhaust and human health that became apparent in the 1980s . |
| 28 | The code word for locking Germany into the alliance with France is , of course , ‘ Europe ’ , although it is far from clear that using the methods of the 1950s , strengthening the legal structure of the EC , can continue to serve their purpose , since the legal structure itself would inevitably be more and more influenced by Germany . |
| 29 | It has always been a corn mill and continued working , somewhat sporadically , up to the middle of the 1950s . |
| 30 | The high birth rates of the 1950s and 1960s are projected to increase the numbers of young elderly from 2011 . |