We are in Eisenhower-era America, a time of new affluence and opportunity.
All this does not, by the way add up to a satiric take on a time of mindless affluence.
It was a time of cosmopolitan affluence, burgeoning excess, and, for Jewish families like the Schnitzlers, an ease of assimilation that would have been unthinkable a generation earlier.
He does not lose sight of the fact that although the 1970s are now seen as a nadir in Britain's post-war fortunes, for the majority of people it was nonetheless a time of growing affluence, widening horizons and personal liberation.
It was just after the war, a time of economic affluence and cultural complacency in America, and from the backwater that was home on a dirt road in Tucson, Arizona, there could have been little evidence that Sontag's readings of Proust would come in handy in later life, let alone be attractive to the opposite sex.
As Burton Feldman explains in his book "The Nobel Prize: A History of Genius, Controversy and Prestige," the economics award was created at a time of exuberant affluence, when mathematics and statistics had colonized economics and practitioners were claiming their field was more akin to physics than to sociology.
Crucially, these will be those who grew up and spent most of their adult lives at a time of expanding UK growth and affluence.
At a time of rising inequality, the marketization of everything means that people of affluence and people of modest means lead increasingly separate lives.
In a time of little conflict and tremendous affluence a fact not much changed by the fact that some Internet stocks are 90% off their highs Bush has said that one of his first tasks will be to push for a $1.6 trillion tax cut.
They become criminals in times of affluence and go straight when times are bad.
