Word: nostalgia
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With its assortments of all-but-forgotten childhood treats from the 1950s and '60s like pumpkin seeds, licorice pipes, candy necklaces, Necco Wafers and Boston Baked Beans, Groovy Candies is one of several nostalgia candy sellers that are unabashedly hawking such Proustian moments. Sales are booming: Groovy Candies' have risen from $50,000 to $3 million since the company was started in 1998. And it's not just candy. With the power of the Internet, other purveyors of childhood memories are resurrecting '50s-era toys and games, including wooden alphabet blocks with old-fashioned lettering and Fisher-Price Snoopy pull...
...shops or sold only regionally. But the Internet has made them newly available to a wider audience, and the affluence and vibrant identity of the post--World War II generation have inspired marketers to cater to its members' unflagging fondness for their youth. "The repackaging of nostalgia is nothing new," says Syracuse University popular-culture expert Robert Thompson, "but for the boomers, it has reached new heights of industrial sophistication. They grew up at a time when there was an explosion of culture and products designed especially for them, and [those products are] easily resurrected." In fact, some experts...
...losing faculty members...We don’t consider our department to have cornered the market on all the brilliant people who are in our field.” “I would be disingenuous if I told you that I don’t have some nostalgia,” Higginbotham said, referring to the days when she worked alongside Appiah and West in Af-Am’s Barker Center headquarters, “but I can also happily say that we have a new team.”And it seems as though Harvard...
...When we first pitched the idea, there was a huge backlash and tons of nostalgia,” Leng says. “But once [Currier residents] got a chance to visit the art studio space, they were thrilled at the idea, because it’s a really cool space...
...Converts to Islam Re "Allah's Recruits" [aug. 28], the attraction of Islam is a bitter nostalgia for past times when women could be oppressed with arrogant impunity. The motivation is the same for fundamentalists of all times, places and denominations, whether their symbols are crescent moons or crosses. Denise Bonhomme Sunnyvale, California...