Word: nostalgias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time approached for his return to Paris, Ike's nostalgia bubbled over in an off-the-cuff speech to a small crowd of SHAPE personnel and their families. Said he: "I came out here because of a special kind of sickness, one that afflicts the aged and the young-homesickness. I must acknowledge that after 40 years of wearing a uniform it would be strange if I felt quite as natural with my civilian hat as I did with my military cap. And I want to indulge for just a moment this feeling of homesickness, the fun of going...
...first time in broadcasting history, all three networks pooled their talent on NBC's Wide Wide World last week to help TV celebrate its first decade. The result was a kind of family photograph album-a little faded, and brown with nostalgia. There was more fun than focus as The Fabulous Infant paraded 90 minutes of TV's past. The laconic Frank Costello grumbled again to the Kefauver committee: "Under no condition will I testify until I'm well enough," and Ed Wynn goggled on-screen to explain why his girl is so fastidious: "Her father...
...tolerant Dylan, poet and good fellow, a few steps away from Mr. Chips or Robert Frost or De Lawd in Green Pastures. In short, Mr. Williams's choice of material and his rendition of it have a tinge of the sacdharine as well as a bit of pleasant nostalgia which fail in part to hit the personality of the man or be very characteristic of his work...
...dramas, ABC and Chesterfield have also guaranteed Frankie complete jurisdiction over his material. Frankie's material was narcotic. Using what the psychiatrists call "the melodic striptease," he peeled yards of satin from Bewitched, I Get a Kick Out of You and The Lady Is a Tramp−smearing nostalgia and responding to each lyric with subtle emotion. It was Frankie's guest crew (Kim Novak, Peggy Lee, Bob Hope) who somehow failed to return the charm and sincerity he oozed, though Hope was spasmodically funny: "The State Department is sending me to Asia to spread the American...
This episode from The Genius, one of the 15 short stories in Author O'Connor's new book, contains most of the ingredients that make him an accomplished reporter of the emotions: wry humor about family life, a nostalgia for childhood, an affectionately gentle treatment of the confusions between old and young. In The Duke's Children. O'Connor touches on the mythology of all the sensitive young who are convinced they must have sprung from nobler loins than those of their earthbound parents; in Fish for Friday, a man's race for the doctor...