Word: nostalgia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost every Briton carried in his heart a bit of proud nostalgia for the Navy's giants; almost every British family had shared in some way the triumphs and the dark hours of the condemned battleships...
...about the CRIMSON of the 1918 period as compared with the paper of 1948? One must of course be impartial and objective. And yet nostalgia is inevitable. Each graduate has reverently and sentimentally laid a wreath on the warm memories of his own bright college years. "Why, don't you remember back in the old days when we used to fill up the Crime with . . .?" He tends unconsciously to brook no comparisons. That makes for difficulty...
...American Past, by Roger Butterfield, was an eye-opening collection of 1,000 pictures, the best one-volume pictorial history of the U.S. around. The accompanying text was almost of necessity an oversimplification of U.S. history. In the field of nostalgia, I Remember Distinctly, another big picture book, by Frederick Lewis Allen and his wife, showed the nation with its manners down between wars. After seven years in Mexico, Ralph Roeder turned up with Juarez and His Mexico, possibly the best written and ablest history of the year...
...rather rural, backward area, dominated strongly by the Church. During the war, the Germans, trying to divide the republic during the occupation, feted the Slovaks with all kinds of food and materials, and people being naturally conservative, they look back to the German domination with some gastronomic nostalgia. Now they're picking up former collaborators every week in Slovakia. So when you talk about politics, you have to divide the two regions of the republic. In the Czech section the Communists are the strongest party with about 40 percent of the Parliament seats. There are three other parties, the National...
Camouflaging her nostalgia behind a five-paragraph facade of labored derision--"the Harvard man is stooped, bespectacled, and loathes football"-- SCAN's own Mary Latson finally reveals her true sentiments with a jealous blast at Radcliffe monopoly. "Where there's Harvard, there's ALWAYS Radcliffe," she wails...