Cocktail Renaissance

But the best cocktails were not the product of the 1950s when the Rat Pack set the standard, but the 1920s when piano bars and hot jazz ruled and people changed their clothes for the evening. Our most elegant cocktails were part of the great modern revolution in design and had the same sleek lines as that era's airplanes and motorcars.

That's from "The Cocktail Renaissance", by Robert Messenger, in the Weekly Standard.