Word: nostalgia
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...rest of us, perhaps it's enough to drop the odd smart reference to June 16, 1904 (that's Bloomsday for Joyce fans, or, dear nonreaders, the day Ulysses takes place), the evocative aroma of madeleines (nostalgia muffins to novelist Marcel Proust), or George Eliot (remember, she was a woman). Bayard argues that the real secret to knowledge, cultivation and passionate reading lies in avoiding the traditional, linear approach to books. "Books aren't so much made to be read, as they are to be lived with," he says. Hey, doesn't that remind you of something Franz Kafka once...
...there as a tribute to the late director but also with an eye on making the journey from the East End of London to the West End stage - a delicious and not so unlikely prospect for a theatreland that is high as a kite right now on musicals and nostalgia...
...Palestinian and Jew, memory is a profound influence, a medium of hope, but something else as well. Each has felt the passionate ache of nostalgia for the same land. In the circumstances, memory is sometimes a fanatic and a poison. Observant Jews believe God gave Abraham title to the land of Israel sometime in the Bronze Age. The Book of Genesis declares, ''The Lord made a covenant with Abraham, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates.'' The more secular deed, in modern times, was the Balfour...
...news almost obsessively. Israelis have traveled a distance from the Leon Uris version of themselves, from the romanticized pioneer days when kibbutzniks drained malarial swamps by day and danced the hora by firelight. After Ben-Gurion came to Palestine in 1906, he wrote a letter of anticipatory nostalgia to his father in Plonsk, Russian Poland. The son was laboring hard. ''But who is to complain, to sigh, to despair? In 25 years our country will be one of the most blooming, most beautiful and happiest: an old-new nation will flourish in an ancient-new land. Then we shall relate...
...Nostalgia is not what it used to be, according to antique dealers, and this scholarly and delightful volume proves them right. American Toy Cars and Trucks by Lillian Gottschalk (Abbeville; 328 pages; $75) celebrates wheels past, from 1894 to 1942, and the older these miniatures are, the more charm radiates from their wire wheels and peeling running boards. From the Jones & Bixler touring car complete with uniformed chauffeur, to the double-deck city bus populated by "clown, fireman, porter and gentleman," to the motorcycle steered by Popeye, Bill Holland's photographs offer a bright valedictory to objects that managed...