Word: nostalgia
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...Patch dolls now read like shots in the dark. Yet this and previous collections of the journalist's craft may one day enjoy new life. Buchwald's job is to repeat history as farce faster than one can say Karl Marx. To the patient reader, farce inevitably returns as nostalgia...
...locking out the modern world, the country has also, in effect, locked in the legacy of its British past, and with it an air of sweet nostalgia. In the pine-scented hill station of Maymyo (named after one Colonel May), tidy rose gardens still grace half-timbered houses with names like All in All and Fernside, and horse-drawn victorias recall a gaslighted London. The town's central clock tolls with the exact chime of Big Ben, and the local rest house, formerly the chummery, or bachelor's quarters, of the Bombay-Burma Trading Co., still serves roast beef each...
...ranchers, meanwhile, remain on the alert. Vows Steve White, a large producer whose groves have been struck: "I will fully prosecute anyone that I catch." Avocado rustling is punishable by up to one year in prison and a $1,000 fine. ENTERTAINMENT Nostalgia Trip for the Tube...
Amid the ceremony, King's friends and former colleagues urged that the civil rights leader's birthday become an occasion not simply for dreamy nostalgia but for an honest inquiry into the meaning of King's life and its impact on the nation. Former King Aide Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker worried about "the risk of getting oversentimental and romanticizing the man to the point that he becomes unreal. The way to honor him is to understand what his work was and commit yourself to doing something...
...universities. He admits that his sour descriptions of beleaguered parenthood and the "squalor of middle-class domestic life" derive from memory. But he adds, in a line echoing the sensibility of Benefactors and his other work so aptly that it might be his literary credo, "One always has great nostalgia for experiences that were emotionally intense, even if one had mixed feelings about them at the time." --By William A. Henry...