Word: nostalgia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...touch of Uncle Tom's Cabin played in blackface by Marilyn's family, and the 1918 Armistice exploding in headlines and parades. Everything, in fact, is so crowded and cluttered (including the sound track which now & then goes slightly hoarse) that little room is left for nostalgia. In the midst of the uproar Miss Haver sweats out two whole decades and a dozen styles of dance routines. Though fresh and appealing in her pigtail period, she is never quite convincing as Broadway's toast...
There are only a few things left at Harvard which can touch off the slippery streams of nostalgia for the reunioning Class of 1924. This Friday's boat race with Yale is one of them...
President Truman, snapped Charlie Wilson, "has been two-minded about bigness . . . He has said he would rather see a thousand insurance companies with assets of $4,000,000 than one company with assets of $4 billion . . . a hundred steel companies instead of U.S. Steel. This is pure nostalgia for the horse & buggy days of business, plus a fear that while bigness may be economically good, it is socially...
Quibbling Oldsters. Aubrey loved the medieval manor house, half dwelling, half barnyard, where the cackling and lowing of livestock were "then thought not . . . ill musique." But, unlike most antiquarians, he never allowed nostalgia to blind him to the bad aspects of the good old days: "The conversation and habits of those times were as starcht as their bands and square beards; and gravity was then taken for wisdom. The doctors in those days were but old boys, when quibbles past for wit even in their sermons...
Four football medleys in the usual style stirred up nostalgia for the fall. Finnegan's Brown and Columbia medleys, particularly, were handled in the Band's best tradition...