Word: nostalgia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cafeteria workers, Hernandez-Gravelle maintains, were "insensitive" to "people of color" and women because they invited students to "join in a night of nostalgia celebrating" the "fabulous," "fun" and "carefree" 1950s...
...Hernandez-Gravelle had her way, we would do away with nostalgia. If she's correct, then it is wrong to romanticize the past, for every decade has its blemishes and every year its flaws. Twenty years from now, it will be insensitive to be nostalgic about the 1980s, to remember these college days as "fabulous," "fun" or "carefree". Without a doubt, this decade has been "painful, complicated, and even life threatening" for the gay community, for the homeless and for the millions of Americans living in poverty...
PERHAPS Hernandez-Gravelle is right in that sense to denounce nostalgia. But she could oppose romanticizing the past without singling out employees who are only trying to enliven an otherwise mundane evening meal. Students enjoy '50s night and other special meals, and they appreciate the extra efforts of the dining hall employees...
...January, Eliot, Kirkland, Leverett, Lowell and Winthrop house dining halls sponsored 1950s theme dinners advertised through posters and fliers. The notices included statements intended to evoke nostalgia and invite students to return to a time described as "care-free". After receiving complaints about the event from students, Hernandez-Gravelle released the statement to increase community awareness of racial concerns...
like the one of fifties nostalgia are onlymeant to be used as "monotony breakers" and that"nothing is put together by design to offendanyone...