Word: nostalgia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three Clubmen. Many of their routines are now remembered by Broadway's elder denizens with a nostalgia like their memories of Barrymore's Hamlet or Lillian Russell's corsetry. There was, for example, the team's greeting to customers who were also their personal friends...
...King's Messenger. There is humor in Badoglio, a nostalgia for the past days of "glory" in the Italian campaign against Ethiopia, and a well-meaning sincerity. He usually speaks in Italian, although he knows French and a little English. Recently he flew to Naples to invite new strength into his Government. Particularly, he asked bearded, 70-year-old Count Carlo Sforza, who had returned to Italy after 16 years of exile, and the potbellied, stubby-haired philosopher and elder statesman, 77-year-old Benedetto Croce, to join with...
Father of an Echo. Poet T. S. Eliot read them too. He translated Anabase, rated the poem with the best of James Joyce. Others have called Poet Perse-Leger the father of modern poetry. "Perse," said Eda Lou Walton, "caught the modern nostalgia for new fields of exploration, the sense of decay in the old, the use of a mythical pageantry to suggest world movements and retardations. He wrote the 'Anabasis' and modern poem after modern poem has echoed his theme...
...Nostalgia has come home to roost on Broadway. For the fourth* time in nine months an oldtime Viennese-type operetta started packing in the customers. This time it was Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow...
...Italians' romantic love of their homeland and their nostalgia for past glories, he espoused the cult of Romanism. He fancied himself a new Julius Caesar, was courted by the world's big shots, loved to be called leonine and at the same time "father of his people." He helped Adolf Hitler to power, was mastered by his pupil. Trapped by his own illusions of grandeur, he led his people into war in an unholy alliance with Germany and Japan. By 1943 he had lost his Empire, and Allied bombs and bayonets threatened to chase him into...