Word: nostalgia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life has to work for a living. His plaintive song was timely enough to make a lot of Budapest theatergoers squirm. No longer may Hungarian gypsy fiddlers play as they please, nor may Count Endrodi cry into his Tokay with impunity. The Communists have clamped down on nostalgia...
...last night boat gave up. Last week, the Manhattan press broke into a wail of nostalgia as the passing of the Day Line was announced. New York's cave dwellers felt a twinge of regret too-until they tried to remember when they had last ridden on a Day Line boat. It had been quite a while...
...CRIMSON, brimming with nostalgia over the discovery of America, will celebrate the holiday by not publishing tomorrow. The University, similarly inclined, will hold no classes...
...Alexander the Great, "moved by a nostalgia for the purity of ancient Athenian civilization, became a collector of antiquities...
...certainly minor, still echoing the big, pretentiously philosophical tones for which his poetic equipment is essentially unsuited, but here & there MacLeish is at home again with the private emotions that he can make ring true. Chief among such emotions is something that some synthetically tough "intellectuals" have decried as nostalgia, as if the muses were not forever daughters of memory, or as if there were something necessarily weak about missing other times, places, or people...