Both Uses of
nostalgia
in
Do You Speak American?
- In this atmosphere, a wave of nostalgia for the purity of the West and frontier values swept popular culture.†
Chpt 3 *nostalgia = longing for something past
- Out of it grew the sentimental and nostalgic figure of the cowboy as art American icon and then, as radio became popular, Will Rogers, "the plainspeaking plainsman with the heartland accent: male, Anglo-Saxon, individualist" and trustworthy.†
Chpt 3nostalgic = with a longing for something past
Definition:
happiness that come with the memory of good times combined with a hint of sadness that those times are over