Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...record for that traditionally bibulous post by attending only two since he got the job-and both were for friends. His favorite pastime is reading, which he selects for "serviceable wisdom." Two weeks ago, when he and Brother Jim took their families to the Shenandoah Mountains to view the autumn foliage, Bill took along Robert E. Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins, Clinton Rossiter's The American Presidency, Machiavelli's The Prince, and a few others...
...bright green colors of summer returned to the Yard last Friday, leaving a curious residue of enamel paint on walls, bushes and stairways. But Harvard Buildings and Grounds reacted so quickly that the colors of autumn were restored before many students could notice the change...
...kind to the artists and the scholars," said Lyndon Johnson. "Somehow," he added with a twinkle, "the scientists always seem to get the penthouse, while the arts and the humanities get the basement." Last week the President took steps to move the artists and scholars upstairs. Under a sparkling autumn sun in the Rose Garden of the White House, he signed a threeyear, $63 million bill creating a National Foundation for the Arts and Humanities that will sponsor new national troupes for the theater, opera and ballet, commission new works of music, finance visits by great artists to U.S. schools...
Christmas is still some 70 shopping days away, but the nation's retailers already have visions of new records dancing in their heads. Judging by the strength of autumn sales, they expect a 6% to 8% rise in Christmas sales, a jump that would easily round off 1965 as the buyingest year in history. Breaking sales records has become practically a Christmas tradition of recent years, and merchants would be disappointed indeed if rising population and prices together did not cause the phenomenon to occur again. What is unusual about their optimism is that this year...
...wonders. The abstract aires expressionists, for all their paint slinging often evoked a topography new in art, often but recognizable . De Kooning's splashes of green and brown are glimpses of landscape any driver who barrels down a thruway at 85 m.p.h,; Jackson Pollock's Autumn Rythm distills the essence of a smoky fall day; his skeins of paint make of a season an environment. Arshile Gorky's Water of the Flowery Mill is filled with fluid, biomorphic forms; they are of nature, but the images seem to glide gently across surface. The total impression...