Word: nostalgia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last night the Cambridge Summer Theatre under the guiding hand of Robert Perry attempted to give Cambridge a hint of the nostalgia of by-gone musical comedy days by presenting Jerome Kern's one-time hit, "Oh Boy!" Such an effort deserves only commendation; however, one is unable to give the present production a good mark for anything except effort...
...Back or Else. Charlie Wilson's hankering to beat his Government swords into electric plowshares was typical. Many businessmen-in-service, sick of Washington and full of nostalgia for businesslike operations, have fled the capital for their old jobs. Fortnight ago WPB's Deputy Vice Chairman for Metals Howard Young resumed the presidency of American Zinc Lead and Smelting Co. Assistant WPB Steel Director Joseph L. Block has returned to the executive vice-presidency of Inland Steel Co. Others are shifting uneasily behind their desks as they shuffle the piles of paper from...
...pleasant surprise of coming into the air-conditioned lounge had worn off, and the Vag stared idly at the drink in his hand, trying hard to keep his head above the current of nostalgia that was tugging at him. This sort of thing might be all right for other people, but it was going to be different with Vag. He had seen too many of his friends go; too much breaking down at the finish, too many last walks around the Yard, too much dreaming over old English A themes and football program. He had gone to too many farewell...
Roger Touhy, Gangster (20th Century-Fox) is a double-helping of nostalgia for cinemaddicts who remember some of the most exciting U.S. movies ever made, such gangster films as Underworld, Drag Net, Public Enemy, Little Caesar. Here, as in the old days, sedans careen fiercely, eyes go deadly at the business-ends of tommyguns, actors circle each other tensely, growling like enraged tom cats, and the iron, melancholic beauty of U.S. city streets and interiors is appreciated as it seldom is in gentler films. Yet taken all in all, Touhy isn't really a very good show...
Tokyo Rose is the darling of U.S. sailors, G.I.s and Marines all over the Pacific. She is a Jap propagandist, but her broadcasts are popular among American listeners: she gives them humor, nostalgia, news, entertainment and good U.S. dance music. In a very feminine and friendly voice she murmurs...