Word: nostalgia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Opera, flabby Ballet Dancer Serge (the "Great Torso") Lifar, 51, in his lithe, bygone prime (see cut) the selfproclaimed successor to the great Nijinsky, was a parody of his younger self in his "farewell" performance in Giselle. A theater full of balletomanes paid tribute to Lifar more out of nostalgia than immediate appreciation. But retirement would come hard to Russian-born Serge Lifar. ,"If the occasion presents itself to dance Afternoon of a Faun," growled he, "I'll dance Afternoon of a Faun...
...West and its history upon its inhabitants. His concentration on one archetypal individual gives his novels more continuity; emphasis on a diverse society might increase their value as social history. Guthrie seems in many ways rather like his creation, Dick Summers (a man who wishes with romantic nostalgia that the West had not been profaned by settlement), rather than a person capable of intellectually determining the spirit of the Westerner. But then reflection on one's cultural background usually comes at a later period in history than he is now depicting, a time when physical obstacles have been overcome. There...
...parade of books and magazine articles has offered the new gospel in a dozen different shadings. It is already under attack by critics such as New Dealing Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr.. who calls it ''a romantic nostalgia'' for the feudal class system. But as the presidential vote showed this month, conservatism is no longer a narrow economic viewpoint but a political philosophy with vast popular appeal. As Du Pont President Crawford H. Greenewalt pointed out, more segments of the population than ever participate in U.S. business, as employees, stockholders or owners, identifying themselves with...
...Friendly Persuasion is a quiet little exercise in nostalgia that somehow turns out to be one of the most pleasant motion pictures to come out in ever so long. If not great drama-in fact, as far as construction is concerned, scarcely drama at all-the film still admirably achieves its small goal of recreating the life of a Quaker family in southern Indiana during the Civil...
...sang Porter's songs on Broadway?" CBS had two answers: 1) Ethel Merman is rehearsing a new Broadway musical (Happy Hunting) and Mary Martin's heart belongs to NBC, and 2) the network hoped to avoid stirring up lingering memories. "We deliberately tried to stay away from nostalgia," said Executive Producer Jack Rayel, and "furthermore, a baritone who sang in a Porter show 20 years ago could not be compared with Gordon MacRae today in appeal...