Word: nostalgia
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...come today having heard that Pope Benedict XVI has just removed restrictions on celebrating Mass in Latin. Many of those who favor a return to the Tridentine Mass were born before 1930 and long for it out of conservative nostalgia. Not me. I confess: I want to hear Mass sung in a language I don't understand because too often I don't like what I hear in English...
This French history is in direct competition with an industry of rock nostalgia. One block from the cemetery, a café displays old Doors concert posters in its windows. Florists near the site sell Morrison T shirts for $22, along with wreaths. "I listen to his music all the time," says Olesya Sergeeva, a 21-year-old student from Siberia who is in Paris on a summer work program. She had headed to the cemetery on her first day off from waiting tables at a restaurant in the Eiffel Tower...
...course the obligatory commemorative stamps and coins. But Garibaldi's spirit has also returned to foreign shores, with a concert in Staten Island, New York, and celebrations in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo and the Brazilian town of, well, Garibaldi. But in case anyone thought this was just dusty nostalgia, it turns out that the very face of 21st century youth is a fan of the Italian. "Garibaldi is my favorite hero," said Daniel Radcliffe, star of the Harry Potter movies, in a recent Italian magazine interview. "In my final exam I wrote about Garibaldi and Italian unification. Actually, there...
...will have something new to say. "The real interest now is the story of the conspiracy," says Peter Hill, editor of London newspaper the Daily Express. "There's an enormous number of people who simply do not believe that [Diana's death] was just an accident." For whatever reason - nostalgia, loyalty, morbid curiosity - readers are still drawn to Diana. "She was a gift to the media when she was alive," says former royal correspondent Nicholas Owen, whose book Diana: The People?s Princess was published June 4. "And the extraordinary thing is that even today, when a magazine or newspaper...
...doom and gloom? Part of this Chicken Little complex can be explained by rose-tinted nostalgia, but such pessimism also reflects deep-rooted self-doubt, a certain suspicion of man’s ability to handle his promethean powers. Caution transforms suffering into virtue and material progress into sin; this psychology of self-denial suggests that we are sowing the seeds of our future destruction with our present prolificacy. If this sentiment merely led individuals to forswear their own possessions, it would be rather harmless for society. But unfortunately, the modern ascetic impulse informs a wide range of misguided policy...