Word: nostalgia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writer that George Macdonald was best known. His At the Back of the North Wind, and "Curdie" books for children, and such mythopoeic fantasies as The Wise Woman, Lilith and The Phantasies are still reread and remembered by those with a nostalgia for the turn-of-the-century world of nannies, nurseries and button boots. But it was Macdonald's Christian insight that made him great. Says Lewis: "Necessity made Macdonald a novelist, but few of his novels are good and none is very good...
...learned that his future was in his past. Still looking like a college boy-but of the class of '25, Rudy said: "People have me returning from the zombie dead. I don't look or act 45. I try to keep my stuff up-to-date. Nostalgia doesn't mean much...
Englishmen abroad, he has observed, show an unexpected interest in their church -probably out of sheer homesickness. And church-sponsored social gatherings are livelier affairs than the stuffy whist drives at home. But the church's appeal is not all nostalgia. "Of course," says Selwyn cheerfully, "a great many people think a parson's a fool, and come to us for a loan with some cock & bull story about being robbed on the Metro...
...TIME's crusty, embittered obituary on Fifth Avenue's open buses [TIME, Dec. 30]. Thousands of New Yorkers, as well as visitors, will find their eyes glistening with nostalgia as these wonderful old carriers trundle off to the Old Bus Cemetery. Where else could you have so many
...Said the farewell issue under the old regime: "Today, we pick up our soapbox and move over to another corner. The old pitch was a good one. . . . But the traffic has changed. . . . We still can't help feeling some twinges of nostalgia...