Word: nostalgia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...yearbook is a nostalgia producer--you buy it so that in 30 years you can flip through the pages and remember your Harvard years. You can sit your grandchildren on your knees, point to your face in the varsity soccer picture and reminisce about the day you saved by booting in the tie-breaking goal. Or you can grin and sigh as you find a candid shot of your old roommates beaning each other with rotten vegetables in the Adams House Raft Race...
...Texans are uniquely Texans, there is something in them that is quintessentially American. Other Americans--if they are not simply allergic to the idea of Texas and Texans--feel something like nostalgia for the sense of freedom and action and raw possibility that still blows across the prickly landscape. -- By Lance Morrow. Reported by David S. Jackson/Houston...
...misimpression may have been created by your report in The Harvard Crimson (page 6) on Friday, May 2, 1986, regarding my reponse to an address by Mr. John Jacob, the President of The Urban League. I did not say that Mr. Jacob was "trapped in nostalgia." Rather, I stated that he should be wary of falling victim to "the treachery of nostalgia." Further, I did not describe the welfare state as "mediocre." Rather, I observed (1) that the welfare state created by the New Deal and the Great Society is a great improvement over the sort of society envisioned...
...called Jacob "trapped in nostalgia for the mediocre welfare state of the New Deal." Kennedy said the U.S. requires "revolutionary change...
Longtime viewers fondly recall the programs of TV's alleged Golden Age, the '50s. A more realistic nostalgia has grown up around the era's scruffy, fevered atmosphere backstage. The film My Favorite Year offered peephole glimpses of those times; now Max Wilk, a noted historian of popular art, revisits the terrain in A Tough Act to Follow. His acerbic novel blends reverie with naked rage at conniving, screen-deep program executives who have displaced the medium's pioneers. Although some secondary characters and events are real, Wilk focuses on an imaginary comedian, Jody Cassel, natural star and born victim...