During this time he wrote one of his finest works, Detstvo Nikity (1921; Nikita's Childhood, 1945), a nostalgic, partly autobiographical study of a small boy's life.
There's nothing nostalgic about this brutal study of children – all played by adults – on an idyllic summer's day in the Forest of Dean in 1943.
Frankenberg's study savaged the nostalgic romantic belief that small-town communities were cosy affairs, as well as the view that there was a settled sense of hierarchy and that people knew their place in a traditional and deferential social order.
He refers to Cambridge, where he studied medicine, as a "nostalgic pageant" that was "made possible by the fleets of American bombers waiting in the quiet fields around the city".
In one study, Wildschut and Sedikides induced a nostalgic state in a group of Greek students at the university, using songs and so on.
For some, it is a nostalgic moment, reeking of those days when they, too, studied Plato, got homesick and (probably) drank too much.
Its booths are awash in upscale, masculine, nostalgic furniture and accessories — less Sharper Image, more Lord Grantham's study in "Downton Abbey" — with provenances ranging from Pennsylvania to Paris, Los Angeles to London, northern Italy to the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
In other studies, participants were prompted to evoke either a nostalgic memory or an ordinary event, before or just after having their sense of self assailed.
In one series of studies we asked people to think of a nostalgic event that involved a person who is overweight.
