The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to about 1978.
After a major loss of dynamism in the 1960s, productivity growth rates began dropping in most countries, falling by half in the U.S. in the 1970s and more or less ceasing altogether in France, Germany and Britain in the late 1990s.
The '60s were an amazing time.
The 1960s were really a life-changing time.
In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War.
The world loves the 1950s.
I'd always had a big thing for the '60s.
I don't really remember much about the '60s at all. You know, 1970 is the first year I remember pretty well.
People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.