Word: nostalgia
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...Vietnam War, the draft that accompanied it, and a host of other injustices. All of this simmering outrage boiled over at Harvard in 1969, when undergraduates seized University Hall in protest of the College’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program. For some, accompanying nostalgia for that era is a tangible disappointment in today’s students who, it may seem, have no interest in enduring truncheons and tear gas in the service of an ideal...
...fairytale book. Scribbled on the ruled paper inside is the declaration, “This is the story of hip-hop’s greatest poet...” Following this humble statement, a mysterious hand inserts a cassette tape into a car stereo, and the music begins. Nostalgia remains the dominant theme throughout the video. “Surviving the Times” presents a scrapbook-style montage of images and memories from Nas’s life (and old videos). The video is so unpretentious and low-budget that if it weren’t for the occasional...
That's not to say Christmas Story or its viewers are cynical. It's nostalgic--but for the past's faults, not its imagined perfection. It's the nostalgia of its Gen-X and -Y fans, who remember childhood in terms of divorces and bad haircuts...
Ryan added a humorous touch of nostalgia to the air, discussing Halberstam’s other passion, sports. “I’m here to represent the frivilous side of David Halberston, in so far as it existed...
...Indeed, nostalgia can be an additional motivating factor, especially for elderly people who have used clotheslines throughout their lives. Mary Lou Sayer, who is over 85, dried her clothes outside when she was young and hoped to do so again when she moved to a Concord, N.H., retirement village three years ago. She has proposed a change to the community's clothesline ban twice. Her second pitch was voted down unanimously in late October. Her best chance now rests with a bill that state representative Suzanne Harvey plans to introduce in 2008 that would say hanging laundry outside cannot...