"60s" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is often used to refer to the decade of the 1960s. For example, "The 60s were a revolutionary time in music and culture."
Here, the Bond glitz was displaced by Saltzman's other favoured ethos, kitchen sink realism, and some kind of 60s circle was made complete.
"Pierre is in his late 60s yet he jumped in to lead the team.
So, in recent years, we've endured 60s, 70s and 80s revivals, punters encouraged to wear silly clothes, like silly music, and generally pretend that crap things were great, a dispiriting travesty of irony, meta-irony, disingenuousness and disingenuity.
Booker-shortlisted The Lowland (Bloomsbury) by Jhumpa Lahiri is an elegantly written novel about two brothers growing up in a lowland suburb of south Calcutta in the 1950s and 60s; the younger becomes involved in the Naxalite movement and is killed by the police.
Pietersen had streaky moments, no question, twice edging over the slips in the 60s.
Despite the notoriety of Cape Fear, Bergen only made four further features in the 60s, before a 20-year gap.
But when Davies said how simple it was that "Terry and Julie" met every Friday night at Waterloo Station, I started to think about all these glamorous couples who met at stations (inevitably wearing 60s clothing against a sepia backdrop).
In the late 60s, when he was a young French teacher in his home city of Derry, he plunged into the nascent civil rights campaign.
From when I was born in 1947 to the 60s, he was away for long chunks of time.
Greeks, who arrived in the 50s and 60s, live next door to Vietnamese who came in the 70s and 80s, who live next door to Anglos like me.
We look to the USA to lead the way with TV women in their 60s, 70s and 80s - and it's true they are inspirational - but the point is they don't look like OAPs and go to great lengths to keep any sign of aging at bay.
