Word: nostalgia
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...French cinemas, is only one sign of burgeoning Marie mania. Michèle Lorin, founding president of the Queen's fan club, is thrilled by the new themed products on sale. "I'll admit I'm a publicity whore when it comes to the Queen," she says. Sweet Nostalgia Marie-Antoinette never suggested that the poor should "eat cake," but that hasn't stopped confectioner Ladurée from creating a Marie-Antoinette collection of its pastel-colored macaroons. Theme Queen In July, the Château de Versailles reveals a Marie-Antoinette "domain." A spokesman promises "the rediscovery...
...this past year. In October, she won the jury prize for best student animation at the New England Film and Video Festival. Her submission, “Wish you were Here,” is less slapstick than her Harvard-oriented animations—focusing on travel and nostalgia, Wilson also won the History and Science Department’s Rotschild Prize for best undergraduate thesis. She wrote on bird migration. After graduating, Wilson and her roommate are headed to Mexico for 10 days to celebrate. Afterwards, she will be teaching high school science and computers at the International School...
...does not take much reading of our history, however, to stem the tide of nostalgia. Seen in a global context, our College began as a small, regional effort, in a cultural backwater of Europe, in the waning years of the Great Ming dynasty. Harvard became a significant American university by emulating German structures and practices in the 19th century. It assumed, with others, a position of national leadership by the middle of the 20th century. Only in the last half-century, and particularly over the course of the past several decades, has our external reputation set us as a place...
...past few months, the questions and doubts that so often accompanied me on my wintry walks have thawed. Nostalgia is setting in, and I’m beginning to answer the question of what Harvard has done for me. In my last few moments as Harvard student, I’m once again becoming sensitive to our school’s clout. Friends and classmates who commiserated with me about the shortcomings of the curriculum are landing precisely where they want. The future for all of us is still bright...
Senior week enforces a discriminatory nostalgia. The more we party, the more we miss partying, and the more we miss partying, the more we believe it was something substantial to be missed. It’s like we’re looking back on the last four years through beer goggles: as we get drunker, the past starts to look drunker...