Word: nostalgia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned down twice by the Army because he had been sitting at a desk too long, so he swung a pick for 18 months in a construction gang and got into the Navy. They were just Americans, with a ready wisecrack, an eye for a pretty leg, a nostalgia for the corner drugstore at home and an idea that they wanted to be somebody someday...
...More Nonsense. There is no feudal nostalgia about Pierre Laval's totalitarianism. It is of the most streamlined Nazi type - profoundly opportunistic and no nonsense about it. Whereas Laval may, and probably will, provoke twice as much resistance as Marshal Petain did, Laval will have the stomach to meet resistance with the firing squad, the guillotine or any weapon handy. Around him he has gathered a Cabinet of obedient bureaucrats...
...19th-Century glassmakers, tired of the facile insipidity to which their art had gradually descended, began to look back with nostalgia at the simple dignity and pure color of medieval windows. They found not only that the medieval stained glass was more luminously splendid than that of the Renaissance, but that it was also more permanent. After much careful research, such famed U.S. glassmakers as Boston's Charles Jay Connick and Philadelphia's Nicola D'Ascenzo readopted the medieval method. The stained-glass makers of the "Gothic Revival" again worked entirely in medieval snippets...
...worst Young Ames is exalted Alger. At its best it dramatizes with nostalgia and conviction an attitude toward life which used to be considered the heart of the democratic ideas. The attitude: that a man can make anything he wants of himself if he has the character to sacrifice present pleasures to future purposes; and if he does not have that character, nothing else he may have matters...
Helen Morgan (Victor). Sweet posthumous nostalgia-Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man, Body and Soul, four other reprints...