Word: nostalgia
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...System, the Galaxy, the Universe." Creation is an onion with many skins, all layering outward from the child's self. If he gets lost in the galaxy, he can find the way back, can fly through the concentric circles to his own house -- from outermost remoteness to innermost home. Nostalgia means the nostos algos, the agony to return home. What got broken long ago in Ernest was his charts and instruments for the journey...
...fact that so many are children of the '50s. Their image of an ideal family comes from TV shows like Father Knows Best; their notion of the ideal mother is the one played by Jane Wyatt: never rattled, always at home. The irony is that this "family of nostalgia," as Madeleine Stoner at the University of Southern California calls it, was largely an aberration that flourished for only a couple of decades after World...
...ruled by Israelites in biblical times, not one square inch should be traded away as part of an Arab-Israeli settlement. Yitzhak Shamir's talk of "Greater Israel" is as ominous for the prospects of there ever being real and lasting peace in the region as Saddam's militant nostalgia for Nebuchadnezzar's Babylonian empire...
...were our sources of decency," says Jackson. "They seeded the cities in Ike's time. Now they are vanishing. Our cultural seed stock came from church, school and the community baseball team. We must now confront the Jeffersonian idea about living in harmony with the land. Is it mere nostalgia, or is it a practical necessity...
...mishap-prone inventor whose botched experiments have turned his brother-in-law into a housefly and his four-year-old son into a 250-lb. clone of Benjy in The Sound and the Fury. We learn these things in the show's 10th-anniversary special -- a nostalgia trip that takes place, oddly, on the program's first episode. Weirdest of all, the series is running, virtually unnoticed, on cable's Family Channel, a new incarnation of the old Christian Broadcasting Network...