Word: nostalgia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manes Kaverna last week, the people sat for hours over a cup of ersatz coffee until night came, and the red, blue and green lights strung in the poplars were turned on; a 15-piece band, trim in white linen jackets (though some musicians omitted neckties), fiddled nostalgia. Prague's current favorite, which was banned during the war as Red propaganda...
...wrote background scores for movies, gained fame chiefly for marrying (and being divorced by) Martha Raye and Judy Garland. On the side, he knocked out some good modern melodies: Holiday for Strings, One Love. The Chicago Symphony played his three full-length symphonic tone poems-Ensenada Escapade, Shadows, Nostalgia...
Poverty & Pretence. He was born at Holly Springs, Miss. (pop. 2,750) amid the grinding poverty, the hatred of carpetbaggers, the nostalgia for better days which shaped life in the South after the Civil War. His father, who had fought as a Confederate cavalry officer with General John H. Morgan's Raiders, died when he was only three, victim of the great yellow fever epidemic of 1878. His mother, daughter of a once wealthy North Carolina family, and a woman who had been educated in a select Philadelphia female academy, raised her brood of three children alone...
...Brady had never had a lesson, and her work showed it. But the best of it possessed an effective if awkward directness. Au Bout on d'Or (see cut) looked static at first glance, but it had just the sexy-sweet, penny-arcade nostalgia she was trying for: the memory of summer nights when it is too hot to pull the shades and the city turns into a bright hive of private worlds...
Stranger Here Myself. An immigrant (from Radna, Rumania), short, bustling, bespectacled Theodore Andrica (rhymes with Eureka), 45, knows the immigrant's nostalgia for the old country. Broke when he landed in the U.S. in 1921, he worked as an orderly in a Buffalo hospital, was ordained a Russian Orthodox priest in Erie, Pa., changed from cleric to bank clerk, drifted to Cleveland...