Word: nostalgia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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GIANTS IN THE EARTH-O. E. Rolvaag-Harper ($2.50). Over the wide grass lands the wind walked, making cat's-paws on a green ocean. Beret sat on the prairie schooner, staring at immensity, feeling the nostalgia that comes to those who voyage on desert places, land or water. Her husband, Per Hansa, walked through the waves, talking to the horses, to Olamund, their son. Beret looked at the dry and lonely sea. Even after the arrival in Dakota Territory, remembering her Minnesota village, she felt this loneliness closing around her. The sky and the green floor made no familiar...
...premised by almost everyone. That anyone of them should have taken his life because of financial troubles, or because of mal-adaptation to his physical or his social environment, does not seem to have occurred to any commentator on the phenomenon. Novalis, who in reality died of sheer nostalgia because he was not born a Greek, has been said to have been the victim of a mal de siecle, and the four undergraduates in question, who probably had at least equally valid reasons for departing this life, must be found to have died from a social cancer that is eating...
...honest attempts at its cure. But much is still to be said, that will probably, for many years at least, remain unsaid. The yearning after synthesis, the desire for some more all-inclusive faith than the multiformity of modern science and modern knowledge allows, bears an affinity to romantic nostalgia that is at times a little hard to stomach. The urge that leads so many romanticists to the Catholic Church has been called the desire of the jelly-fish for the rock. God has become the rage among the younger intellectuals in Europe. "La jeune France" has deserted almost...
...asked only that we should bring with us a few flowers, as though he desired to inhale for the last time the perfume and beauty of living things before returning to earth. The perfume of those flowers is wafted over him now and with it the nostalgia of our keen and true friendship...
...drowsy sweetness of the jungles of Brazil, they pined in languor, gazing with lacklustre eyes at troughs filled with such tasty morsels as corn, ants, dead flies, bread and mice. Keepers conferred. One day huge electric lights were strung along the lizard house. The iguanas awoke out of their nostalgia. They wriggled joyfully in the light of the strange and sterile suns above them; crept to the troughs, ate greedily...