Word: nostalgia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every one of those demands," said Dale E. Fink '71-'72. "We're here to commemorate those victories and to affirm...those events are still meaningful for us and those are the values we still live by...We did not come here for nostalgia...
...here out of nostalgia, we're here to set the record straight," Susan B. Jhirad '64, a graduate student who participated in the building takeover 20 years ago, said to more than 200 people who filled the forum room of the Institute...
...prime-time schedule. To be sure, both of them -- CBS's Tour of Duty and ABC's China Beach -- add plenty of TV fabric softener to the abrasive material. Each fills its sound track with '60s pop songs, as if Viet Nam were just another trip down nostalgia lane, like high school mixers and afternoons at the malt shop. Both have taken a predominantly male experience and leavened it with female characters and soap-opera story lines closer to Dallas than Saigon...
...newcomer to the area--Shake, Rattle and Roll--seeks to capitalize on the Baby Boomers' nostalgia for 1950s memorabilia. Whether it succeeds in the market or not, perhaps the store's presence, located next to The Friendly Eating Place and down the street from the gleaming new condo complexes, is itself a metaphor for the changes that Mass. Ave. is undergoing...
...dean was wrong to publicly renounce the workers, to accuse them of subtle if unintentional racism. By focusing on divisive theoretical questions, such as whether nostalgia inevitably constitutes racism and sexism, Hernandez-Gravelle merely diverts our attention from the far more important issues of minority faculty recruitment and University divestment...