Based on a short memoir by the talented, acid-tongued journalist Lynn Barber (first published in Granta magazine), the movie is set in 1962, when England was gradually emerging from postwar austerities and the fabled antics of swinging London were just getting under way.

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That was in 1963, at a time when the classical-music establishment was still in thrall to the postwar professoriate of Austro-German composers and their foreign epigones who believed that the future of music lay not with traditional harmony but with Schoenberg-style serialism.

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This is under the 73% ratio in the early postwar years when interest rates remained low.

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That manipulated, pegged, or fixed-rate system worked well in the early postwar years when there was apparently an unlimited demand for dollar reserves, which we were happy to provide to the world in the form of external deficits.

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Being true to oneself is a key issue in Clifford Odets' dark play, "The Big Knife, " written in 1948 during the flush of postwar success, when America's focus turned toward capitalism.

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But in this postwar environment, when kids became the center of our lives, Disneyland was the perfect vacation because it was built around the child, the child's needs, actually even the child's scale because Main Street was scaled down to about 80 percent of normal height.

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When "Big" Bill France Sr. created Nascar in the postwar years, that rivalry was unleashed on the racetrack.

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They are following in the footsteps of earlier generations who came in the 1960s, when so-called guest workers from the Mediterranean Basin were invited to spur West Germany's booming postwar economy.

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When other countries decided to fix to the dollar under this regime after 1945, we got the fabled era of global postwar prosperity.

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