In his recollections of "The Fifties', The Angry Decade, the critic Kenneth Allsop presented a list of word-associations prompted by that phrase:

Television and the TV 'celebrity', expresso bars, skiffle, the boom of the pop-singer, indoor plants, Samuel Beckett, The Threepenny Opera, Loui s Armstrong's visit and jazz becoming 'smart' as well as widespread, capital punishment, Actor's Studio, James Dean, Marion Brando, jeans, full employment, The Boy Friend and Cranks, jukeboxes, new playwrights, the Sack, Bloody Marys, return of, and then the surprising extinction of, the deb, brighter shops and more consumer goods, cult of the bust, Monroe, Mansfield and Dors, Audrey Hepburn and the gamin ...

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