Word: nostalgia
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...Coral need to stop writing songs and convert to a mid-60s folk-rock cover band. There’s a substantial baby-boomer nostalgia circuit—my friend’s dad played bass for “The Grateful Dads”—and the Coral could own it. Seriously, the band has some fine musicians and competent vocalists, and they come across as very polished. I bet they’d do a rockin’ rendition of “The House of the Rising Sun,” but there?...
Despite the mixed feelings of intensity and nostalgia, the common sentiment for Harvard is a desire...
...accomplishments, I was always struck by what I saw as her lingering carefree nature, her almost intimidating purity of intent. She was removed from my vision for the most part, but when I saw her, I felt a pang of regret. The distance was alienating, but it brought nostalgia for the Christina I had known...
...SNAFU movies also addressed nostalgia for "The Home Front" (Tashlin, November 43). SNAFU is shivering in an outpost where "It's so cold, it would freeze the nuts off a Jeep," thinking enviously of the folks who have it easy back in the States - except that his girl friend has joined the WACs, grandpa is shooting rivets onto a battleship and mom is farming harder than Renee Zellweger in "Cold Mountain." And a couple of SNAFUs, including "Private SNAFU vs. Malaria Mike" (Jones, March 44), revived Geisel's Flit villain, the mosquito, to advise soldiers in the South Pacific...
This gung-ho attitude doesn’t appear to fade after a few semesters at Harvard. Sure Leigh Enoch, a fall ’03 transfer from University of Virginia who is also a Crimson editor, may have a little bit of nostalgia for the University of Virginia’s notoriously wild social scene when faced with the prospect of a slightly more subdued Friday night in Cambridge. But she insists that the social life at UVA, complete with thriving Greek scene and all-night parties, “got old quickly.” Enoch has grown...