Word: nostalgias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week adventurous Private Ronald Dorsey was remembering with nostalgia his quiet life with the U.S. Army. Said he: "I'd like to re-enlist ... if they'll take me back." He didn't like being called a deserter. "I didn't desert," he insisted. "I came back voluntarily...
Even in its drier passages The Town is always readable, full of a sweet nostalgia that only occasionally spills over into sentimentality. Its publisher announces it as part of "a great American epic," which is overstating the case. The Town is something more modest but almost as enjoyable, a good bit of fictional Americana...
Fortunately Helen Hayes (Lubov Andryevna Ranevsky in the Russian and now Lucy Andree Ransdell) avoids this stereotyping. She plays the landowner who is most poignantly affected in the social change, a confused, sympathetic woman whose mind is clouded with nostalgia, occupied with the days of the beautiful Wisteria Trees and the Old South...
...well happen that some people with a feeling of nostalgia for the existing and the past will in the year 2050 shed a few crocodile tears for these same buildings when they, too, become obsolete and are demolished...