The reminiscence bump is the tendency to recall more memories from adolescence and early adulthood than from adjacent lifetime periods (Rubin et al., 1986, 1998).
"The Guantánamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison, Outside the Law," edited by Mark P. Denbeaux and Jonathan Hafetz, is an anthology of reminiscences by more than a hundred lawyers who defended the detainees.
But his reminiscences grow more vivid and personal — a trip he once took with his brother to the family's empty summer home, going to get help when his father had a bad fall while hunting — as he circles around the memory of his parents' deaths in a ferry accident.
In a reminiscence published more than 50 years after the Philadelphia explosion, Mr. Kramish attributed his unlikely survival to a large jar of chicken soup that his mother carried on a three-day train ride from her home in Denver to his bedside in a Philadelphia naval hospital.
And he celebrates a book's stimulus for reminiscence as "more important than a dance card, or the photo that freezes you mid-teeter at the edge of the Grand Canyon": "A book can be a significant event in the history of your reading, and your reading (provided you are significant) should be an essential segment of your character and your life," he writes.
"Weston Road Flows" is a reminiscence of more carefree days; the title track, built on a swelling gospel sample, follows the pressures of fame — "The paranoia can start to turn into arrogance / Thoughts too deep to go work 'em out with a therapist".
Many of the IG staff interviewed considered that reminiscence had more of a short-term than a long-term effect.
More reminiscences followed in "The Other City" (1950).
After more reminiscences, Friar Dick Capri got up and told Milton Berle's favorite story.
We play annually, usually in France, and it is always a delight to exchange reminiscences which get more lurid each year.
