Word: nostalgias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Diskman Grunfeld writes with nostalgia of the simple days when an obscure composer named Franz Drdla* "was one of the few pieces of out-of-the-way information one had to remember" and "there were never more than two [versions] of anything and in many cases not even one, so the only hazard was being caught off-base discussing nonexistent issues." Today, says Grunfeld, there is so much music on the market that some connoisseurs are forced to specialize in such restricted areas as complete Beethoven Quartet issues. When quizzed about some rare or new release that he knows absolutely...
BOOK OF NURSERY AND MOTHER GOOSE RHYMES, illustrated by Marguerite de Angeli (192 pp.; Doubleday; $5), is the kind of book that an adult takes from a sleeping child and leafs through with unashamed nostalgia...
...book review of Fred Allen's Treadmill to Oblivion, which tells the story of the life and death of his famed radio show. Allen read some acid commentary on the industry (including the old saw that "advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission"), and there was a pleasant nostalgia to his re-creation of Allen's Alley. The remainder of Omnibus' 90 minutes was devoted to some mildly interesting but hardly experimental films: the escape of two ballet dancers from behind the Iron Curtain and a U.S. travelogue...
...Friend (book, music & lyrics by Sandy Wilson) may very well prove the surprise hit on Broadway that it was in London. A gay, witty spoof of musicomedy during the '20s, it manages to hold up all evening by lacing its burlesque 'with nostalgia. It also avoids dangerous pitfalls by sticking to the musicals of the '20s and not going after the mores...
...there are the horrible little Benchley children in such selections as "Kiddie-Kar Travel" and "The Stranger Within Our Gates." Shakespeare, the opera, and the French language get theirs, in bitter doses. Sometimes a line stands out alone, like the crafty nostalgia of "It was April, long before Spring had really understood what was expected of her." Or the smooth unexpectedness of, "One evening I had been working late in my laboratory fooling round with some gin and other chemicals...