Status Updates From Amsterdam

"When the ladder crumbled behind them, when the state withdrew her tit and
became a scold, they were already safe, they consolidated and settled down
to forming this or that—taste, opinion, fortunes."

Nurtured in the postwar settlement with the state’s
own milk and juice, and then sustained by their parents’ tentative, innocent
prosperity, to come of age in full employment, new universities, bright
paperback books, the Augustan age of rock and roll, affordable ideals.