Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism. — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
Los Angeles functions for me as a kind of holy template. It is postwar America. — Michael Light Copy Share Image
My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence. — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
I think the day you start building the war plan is the day you start beginning the postwar plan. — Jay Garner Copy Share Image
In the face of postwar austerity, hundreds of brides-to-be across the country sent Princess Elizabeth their clothing coupons so that she could… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering. — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“I’m a postwar child, Kate. We don’t talk up our achievements, and we don’t throw things away. It’s how we were brought… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
Well, you know... I grew up in postwar Britain, when you were lucky to get anything to eat. People in America have… — Tim Curry Copy Share Image
No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Postwar America was a very buttoned-up nation. Radio shows were run by censors, Presidents wore hats, ladies wore girdles. We came straight… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg principles. They understand that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out… — Giovanni Agnelli Copy Share Image
Between the postwar fifties - domesticity, people happy to be alive after the Second World War, wanting to build a home, make… — Sally Potter Copy Share Image
If I had been prime minister, I would have offered apologies to the Dutch Jewish community without hesitation. This would refer both… — Els Borst Copy Share Image
“There was a fetid atmosphere throughout the cities of Germany during the postwar years that laid its breath on all of the… — Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Copy Share Image
“Most of the institutions that come in to offer help after disaster don't have the resources to provide concrete help. . .… — Leymah Gbowee Copy Share Image
We were the children of white flight, the first generation to grow up in postwar American suburbs. By the time the ’60s… — Herbert Muschamp Copy Share Image
“In intellectual and popular culture, war has come to be regarded by many as a peculiar psychosis of Western civilization. This atmosphere… — Lawrence H. Keeley Copy Share Image
Koizumi was not rooted in Japan's rightwing nationalist tradition: he was a pragmatist and a populist. Abe, in contrast, is a rightwing… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
I had a happy childhood, with many stimulations and support from my parents who, in postwar times, when it was difficult to… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Copy Share Image
From the early 1960s to the mid-1980s - the era of military dictatorship when South Korea was rebuilding itself from a postwar… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
The '50s in general are written off as a boring decade following the turmoil of the Second World War and its immediate… — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share Image
