Word: nostalgia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...playwright Arthur Kopit, whose works include Wings, Nine, and the current End of the World, four years at Harvard defies encapsulations. What would he title a play about his undergraduate career? "I don't like nostalgia," he says. "I find...
Some 13 years later, with student riots the thing of nostalgia pieces, and hardly the overbearing threat that could effectively halt classes and occupy University Hall, Harvard's Messiah seems remarkable mortal--mortal enough to fuel occasional speculation over his successor...
...past quarter century has made me see things in the College I could not have seen at 20. My present position gives me ample opportunity to see the lure of nostalgia, or at least that unhappy form of nostalgia which leads one to wish one had taken better advantage of the College--"if only I knew then what I know now." But we did not; certainly I did not. Both as a middle-aged alumnus and as a dean. I have come to the conclusion that college is something which happens to us, where we strive to do the best...
...gave one a chance to live in New York, an experience considered de rigeur among certain of my classmates. It all seems a millennium ago, and the Radcliffe of my day was in many ways a quaint and dated institution. But I still look back on those years with nostalgia and a certain amount of pride. We knew a good thing when we saw it and seized the moment...
...Normandy veterans who come back for the first time, the experience often brings a bewildering rush of emotional crosscurrents: nostalgia for the pride and purpose they felt as young soldiers mixed with something akin to guilt for having survived when death randomly took so many friends. At Omaha Beach, where the water's edge turned red from American blood, returning veterans remember the deafening roar of battle, the smoke and confusion. All they can hear now is the lap of a low surf, the keening of seagulls and occasionally the shouts of children playing on the beach. The puzzle...