Word: nostalgia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student body, a few exist who have been born with snowshoe feet or a mountain goat nostalgia for high places. At Harvard these select silver spooners have already formed the Skiers and Mountaineers Club. But the average earthbound yokel can only watch with awe and a weak stomach their feats of block and tackle climbing, and secretly shiver as they madly race down some crooked trail. The boys are good, regular hot rocks, he will have to admit...
...show, Jolson abandons Composer Lane's score, whips into Mammy, Sonny Boy, Swanee, April Showers, many another ballad that he plugged in the '203. Kneeling, rolling his eyes, bleating the old speakeasy classics, Jolson manages by curtain time to draw a warm bath of Broadway nostalgia that would drown even Billy Rose...
With financial worries behind him, Jim Williams developed an uncontrollable nostalgia for Arizona, where he had spent his youth. When he discovered that he didn't have to stay in Cleveland to do his cartooning he sold a Cleveland home that had cost him $65,000, shopped around for a likely ranch, and finally settled down in the lonely, Southwestern cow country where he lives today. One reason he bought his ranch: four men had been killed on it, one is buried under the basement of his kitchen...
Smetana: Quartet No. I ("From My Life") (Curtis String Quartet; Columbia: 7 sides) and Dvořák: Sextet in A Major (Budapest String Quartet, with John Moore, second cello, and Watson Forbes, second viola; Victor: 8 sides). Polka-dotted nostalgia by old Bohemia's greatest composers; the Dvořák for the first time on records...
Although they were hitting both Prior and Devens with fair case all afternoon, good control and smart fielding kept the veterans out of trouble. They executed three double plays, as Bilodeau at shortstop turned up with one fielding gem after another, bringing nostalgia for former days...