In Valley, Age-old Values Never Went Out Of Style Critics Dismiss Many Republican Proposals As Being Grounded In Misplaced Nostalgia. Praying In Schools; Discouraging Teen Pregnancy And Casual Divorce; Cutting Welfare, And Turning To Private Charities; Going ``back To Basics'' In Education -- These Measures Try To Resuscitate An America That Died In The 1950s And Can Never Live Again, Skeptics Argue.