Word: nostalgias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprise that nostalgia will cause a baby boomer to fall in line with the dominant stereotype of the youth of today and decry the greedy, "antiseptic" state of the students he teaches. This shallowness is pretty standard in anything written lately about the "younger generation." It is a little strange, however, to see such a cursory treatment of the literature Professor Blumenthal, a teacher of poetry here, amply quotes...
ALTHOUGH these may sound like the voyeuristic, nostalgia-ridden complaints of a menopausal, male professor, there is, from the viewpoint of someone who came of age in the at-least-passionate, though surely not perfect 1960s, something dryly and barrenly antiseptic about this new somberness and deglandularization on the part of youth. There is, I want to shout at them, plenty of time left for the sobering domain of the reality principle to set in, for their ideas of love to be demystified therapized, psychoanalyzed and scrutinized by the masters of irony and the Internal Revenue Code...
...reunion we see you made $800,000 thatyear, we invite you back for a weekend," he says.And that's where Harvard makes its pitch: "Youcombine the right amount of nostalgia with theneeds of Harvard...
...business since 1983, Moore and probably many Harvard students felt a tweak of nostalgia as the owners rooted the last of the dusty, frequently yellowing books from storeroom corners en route to the new store. The move took nearly a year to complete...
...alongside their kids and struggling to keep up with the cast changes (which one is Phil Hartman?). Still, an anniversary for Saturday Night Live -- which will mark the start of its 15th season with a prime-time special next Sunday -- is more than just a routine occasion for TV nostalgia. The pressing question: Is Saturday Night still alive or merely on life support...