Word: nostalgia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LAST THING today's acheivement-oriented, disco cool generation wants to see is a movie vaunting sixties nostalgia. Flower Child Groovies, Peace On Earth, and Power to the People are ridiculed slogans. Can anyone take Jerry Rubin seriously when in 1979 he summons BU students to sit-ins and protest rallies, regardless of cause...
...activists who were students here ten years ago say they hope they left a heritage deeper than mere nostalgia for excitement. There are, they say, tactical lessons to be learned from that era. Ansara, for example, believes that SDS members among themselves wrongly downplayed the group's successes. "We denied our victory," he says. "We attacked our supporters for fear of being co-opted," he says. "I would love to do what we did then with the knowledge that we have now." Skip Griffin '70, then-president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Association of African and Afro-American Students, believes that...
...victims of the power game: Walter Ben jamin, Leon Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg. He has also talked about inventing "a figure, a character in a picture the way novelists have been able to do, like the people you remember out of Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy." There are many openings for gratuitous nostalgia in Kitaj's literary art, and his paintings can be as irritating as any text that drapes its obscurities with belligerent footnotes; they sometimes reduce themselves to promiscuity among famous names. But what gen erally saves Kitaj's work from this failing is his visual flair and range...
...pregnancy. It appears in both the O. Henry and Best collections. Julie Hecht's I Want You, I Need You, I Love You is a stylishly intelligent and deceptively lighthearted evocation of a woman's fantasies about Elvis Presley. Hecht strikes the right balance of irony, nostalgia and affection for a time when Presley and the short story itself were still in full bloom...
...shears) or the bright red caesura of a barn, one sees the equivalent of perfect natural pitch in singers: an instinctive truth of tone, the mark of a born painter. At her best, she makes nearly every American "primitive" who has appeared since her death look postcardy; her own nostalgia, however tempered by cuteness now and then, has not lost its ability to work on us. - Robert Hughes