Word: nostalgia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...room. Still he waited, and struck up a conversation with the girl sitting next to him, who had bangs and very dirty legs. "Radcliffe" he had said to himself right away, and although he felt that he ought to sound scornful, he couldn't help letting a twinge of nostalgia come in. It wasn't quite the same in the summer, without the Annex. "Pretty good game today, wasn't it?" he ventured. "Sloppy," she replied out of the corner of her mouth. "Well, that starting pitcher just had a bad day," he said bravely. "Bad day! Why that pantywaist...
...York Post's Columnist F.P.A. thought he saw an omen in Harry Truman's nostalgia for the Senate. "Lord!" wrote Adams. "After J. Q. Adams had been President he became a representative from Massachusetts." For omen-sighters there was a better precedent. Like Harry Truman, Andrew Johnson was a Senator before death made him President; six years after he left the White House he was again elected a Senator (from Tennessee...
...Paradise and went to live there. When his paradise (the village of Santa Eulalia on the Balearic island of Iviza) was bombed at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, Paul got out and wrote the moving Life and Death of a Spanish Town. Six years later, wearing his nostalgia for Paris on his sleeve, he hit the bell again with The Last Time I Saw Paris, a gamy, garlicky recollection of Left Bank life. Now he is going back where he came from. Linden on the Saugus Branch is the story of Paul's New England boyhood...
...called the Gay Nineties," but in the Alsop house in Brooklyn Heights there was a set period of meditation and contemplation called Searching Out the Heart. There was also a great deal of fun, but very little nonsense, in the Victorian childhood which Author Gulielma Alsop recalls with understandable nostalgia in Deer Creek...
...Many of them were married. They had been crammed in crowded Quonset huts, auto trailers and jerry-built houses. Government allowances had scarcely covered the expenses of their growing families. For many, college had been a somewhat grim experience which they would long remember, but not with nostalgia...