Word: nostalgia
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...even better today than it did 40 years ago: the tube amplifier. Although almost made extinct in the 1970s by cheaper transistor-based amps, vacuum tubes (also known as valves) are back in the mix for a growing number of high-end audio companies. This isn't just sonic nostalgia: audiophiles have long claimed that tubes pump out warmer, smoother sounds - a result of the low-level distortion that tubes generate - than transistors. If your music goes down these tubes, it's guaranteed to amplify your listening pleasure...
Cultural decline is a more difficult failing to assess - and address. Traditionally a province of the right, it speaks to the nostalgia of some French for the more rigorous, hierarchical society of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Paradoxically, that starchy era inspired much of France's subsequent cultural vitality. "A lot of French artists were created in opposition to the education system," says Christophe Boïcos, a Paris art lecturer and gallery owner. "Romantics, Impressionists, Modernists - they were rebels against the academic standards of their day. But those standards were quite high and contributed to the impressive quality...
...hard to say why, apart from habit, there should be any nostalgia for royal forms among Australians, especially when we are so fond of our national antielitism. But people, including Australians, want figures to admire. "If we don't have the Queen, whom can we look up to?" was one of the most frequent complaints at referendum time. The thought that in a democracy you don't look up to your superiors, but sideways at your fellow citizens, wasn't much aired in monarchist circles. And Australia has always been short not only of convincing shared ceremonies of national identity...
...champagne pyramids, satin shoes, and a country under one’s own reign. So, in celebration of those good times and Antoinette’s 252nd birthday, which arrives today, pop open a bottle of Moët, forget about midterms for a few hours, and let the nostalgia wash over you. TAKE A SHOT... 1. Take a shot for every different American or quasi-European accent in the film. “We’re too indie for cultural accuracy!” the film cries. 2. Take a hesitant sip for each of Louis XVI?...
...tango scholars to define their object of study and you’re likely to get three different answers. For some, it’s a melodic language of nostalgia and loss. For others, it’s the synchrony of two bodies in motion. And for some, it’s a symbol of passion and possession deeply interwoven in structures of social authority. At 3 p.m. this afternoon, the curtain will rise on “Tango! Dance the World Around: Global Transformations of Latin American Culture,” a weekend conference in Radcliffe Yard that will...