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Patriotism and nostalgia
Patriotism and nostalgia for his ' patria ' feature as prominent themes in his poetry.

Patriotism and .
* A. Terian, Patriotism And Piety In Armenian Christianity: The Early Panegyrics On Saint Gregory, St Vladimir ’ s Seminary Press, 2005
The Political Thought of Joseph Stalin: A Study in Twentieth-Century Revolutionary Patriotism.
Patriotism is a devotion to one's country, excluding differences caused by the dependencies of the term's meaning upon context, geography and philosophy.
On the evening of 7 April 1775, he made the famous statement, " Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Two of Abbot's melodramas, The Youthful Days of Frederick the Great ( 1817 ) and Swedish Patriotism ( 1819 ), were produced at Covent Garden.
The night before her execution, she told the Reverend Stirling Gahan, the Anglican chaplain who had been allowed to see her and to give her Holy Communion, " Patriotism is not enough, I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
Patriotism and esprit de corps among the workers ran very high.
See Patriotism.
This was a time in France when, following the Moroccan crisis of 1911, nationalism reached " fever pitch " – a period one historian described as " The Hegemony of Patriotism " ( 1911 – 1914 ), particularly affecting opinion in the lycées and grandes écoles of Paris.
), ' Britannia ', Patriotism: the making and unmaking of British national identity, vol.
Chen once wrote an article entitled " Self Consciousness on Patriotism " ( 愛國心與自覺 ) which conveyed a strong sense of patriotism and encouraged people to fight for their freedom.
Patriotism has been infused, industry fostered, and wickedness condemned.
Patriotism had an important place in the school curriculum, and the generation that was coming of age in 1941 had been educated to think of themselves as Americans first and foremost.
In 2004, Brown Jr. received the " Ambassador of Patriotism " award from the POW Network.
* Hansen, Jonathan M. " Fighting Words: The Transnational Patriotism of Eugene V. Debs, Jane Addams, and W. E. B.
), Speeches from the Dock, or Protests of Irish Patriotism ( Dublin: M. H. Gill and Son, 1953 ).
In 1891 he published a polemic called Le joujou patriotisme ( Patriotism, a toy ) in which he argued that France and Germany shared an aesthetic culture and urged a rapprochement between the two countries, contrary to the wishes of nationalists in the French government.
In 1738, he visited England, became one of the leading friends and advisers of Frederick, Prince of Wales, who now headed the opposition, and wrote for the occasion The Patriot King, which together with a previous essay, The Spirit of Patriotism, and The State of Parties at the Accession of George I, were entrusted to Pope and not published.

nostalgia and play
But, oh, how the play looks back in witty nostalgia to a lost England of plenty when we " had everything.
They are big draws on the oldies and nostalgia concert circuits and continue to play the music that made them famous.
", " And that was just the teachers ... aaah ", " and then I was thrown out of the public library ... ah ", " and then I got out of the toddlers ' paddling pool ... ah ", and " and then I was sacked as head of the girls school biology department " and jokes designed to play on the audience's sense of nostalgia for the 1970s.
Today most stations that play beautiful music are either characterized as nostalgia, smooth jazz or easy listening.
The play portrays a decaying moral and political order and demonstrates a nostalgia for the Elizabethan era.

nostalgia and central
The central theme the show referenced the idealism and sentimentalism of the 1890s while addressing the role of kitsch and nostalgia in our current culture.
* Norman Gunston on nostalgia central
The 1953 hartal is, of course, the central event of its history to which Sri Lanka's Old Left looks back with heroic nostalgia.

nostalgia and role
This nostalgia played a major role in the Islamist political ideal of Islamic state, a state in which Islamic law is preeminent.
Shortly thereafter, he went on to earn a Master's degree while working on his second novel, soon followed by his Ph. D. in English at the University of Oregon, where he studied the role of horror and nostalgia in 20th century culture in a dissertation called The Popular Uncanny.
Quaife played an important role on the group's influential album The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, which featured a strong theme of nostalgia.
Its producer, Harry Rigby, deciding to cash in on the nostalgia craze by reviving another vintage show with another glamorous movie star as its centerpiece, zeroed in on Irene with Debbie Reynolds making her Broadway debut in the title role.
Neo-Stalinism is a political term referring to the promotion of positive views of Joseph Stalin's role in history, the partial re-establishing of Stalin's policies on certain issues, and nostalgia for the Stalin period.
For Sentimental Reasons is an American nostalgia band and have usually played as a sextet of three men and three women, the women occasionally acting in the role of The Andrews Sisters, each wearing a red, white or blue dress.

nostalgia and .
As they looked with nostalgia to a society which had been swept away, they were probably no more than half-conscious that they painted in colors which had never existed.
Lucius Beebe's book, `` Mr. Pullman's Elegant Palace Car '', fills us with nostalgia, recalling days when private cars and Pullmans were extra wonderful, with fine woodwork, craftsmanship in construction, deep carpets and durable upholstery.
He can smell again the perfume she wore and recall the lilting sound of laughter, and can smell again the aroma of autumn -- fallen leaves, the wine of cool air, and the nostalgia of woodsmoke which blows through all the winds of fall.
rather his pictures invite the observer to draw on his memory, his imagination, his nostalgia.
Presentation of `` The Life And Times Of John Sloan '' in the Delaware Art Center here suggests a current nostalgia for human values in art.
" But, " nostalgia is not a fatal disease.
A poignant sense of nostalgia accompanied the recordings of several gospel and blues singers in the 1940s and 1950s who used the song to remember their grandparents, traditions, and family roots.
* Remnants of contemporary culture accordingly appear as valued antiquities or sometimes just as unrecognized survivals, lending a rare feeling of nostalgia for the present to the stories.
In addition, Biafra was disdainful of the reunion, and having long expressed his disdain for nostalgia and rock reunion / oldies tours in particular, argued that the whole affair was motivated by greed.
Some writers have noted that diaspora may result in a loss of nostalgia for a single home as people " re-root " in a series of meaningful displacements.
Music commented that Jones's death " hit so many people so hard " because " Monkees nostalgia cuts across generations: from the people who discovered the band during their original 1960s run ; to the kids who came of age watching 1970s reruns ; to the twenty-and thirtysomethings who discovered the Monkees when MTV ( a network that owes much to the Monkees ' influence ) began airing old episodes in 1986.
Often, the invocation of Kali Yuga denotes a certain helplessness in the face of the horrors and suffering of the human condition and a nostalgia for a golden past or a future salvation.
I have a deep nostalgia for the future.
Amid nostalgia for the ancient Roman Republic, the theories of the Enlightenment were at their peak, and the devisors of the new systems looked to nature for their inspiration.
'" Martin Gottfried wrote: " The concept behind ' Follies ' is theater nostalgia, representing the rose-colored glasses through which we face the fact of age ... the show is conceived in ghostliness.
It was a measure of his powers of persuasion that he managed to coax the 77-year-old Astaire – who had insisted that his contract rule out any dancing, having long since retired – into performing a series of song and dance duets, evoking a powerful nostalgia for the glory days of the American musical film.
In the early decades of the twentieth century when there was a growing nostalgia for its sense of order, the style was revived and came to be known as the Colonial Revival.
All were born within a fifteen-year period ( 1887 and 1901 ) and, although they cannot be described as members of a single school, they all pursued an exploration of identity, rejecting nostalgia and parochialism and engaging with social and political issues.
Jan and Dean continued to tour on their own throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and into the new millennium — with 1960s nostalgia providing them with a ready audience, headlining oldies shows throughout North America, usually during the summer months.
Martians, other than human beings transplanted to Mars, became rare in fiction after Mariner, except in exercises of deliberate nostalgia – more frequently in some genres, such as comics and animation, than in written literature.
To many small towns bypassed by freeway construction, embracing 1950s nostalgia and historic restoration is a means to bring in badly needed tourism to restore a sagging local economy.
Even as nostalgia was discarded, many in the scene adopted a nihilistic attitude summed up by the Sex Pistols slogan " No Future "; in the later words of one observer, amid the unemployment and social unrest in 1977, " punk's nihilistic swagger was the most thrilling thing in England.
Branded as " classic television ", these often carry re-runs of programming dating back to the monochrome television era and are promoted as nostalgia.
Much of the ragtime recorded in this period is presented in a light-hearted novelty style, looked to with nostalgia as the product of a supposedly more innocent time.
Expanding on the themes of nostalgia, alienation and childhood, the short premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and saw its online premiere at MUBI on June 27, 2011.

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