Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...root of the whole ecology movement) wind back to Wordsworth and his fellow poets, one cannot help feeling reverence at the sight of the manuscripts ranked in their vitrines. How often do you get to see Shelley's rough draft of "Ozymandias" or holograph manuscripts of Keats' "To Autumn," Byron's Don Juan, Burns' "Auld Lang Syne" and Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" in one room at once? But the curators have also assembled an extraordinary range of paintings, drawings and prints to show what effect the new current of natural vision, directed toward subjects both common and sublime...
Anyone who has watched the leaves in Central Park turn slowly through somber autumn shades to brown and finally, wrinkled and dark like an old man's face, drop spinning to the ground, knows something of that special feeling one gets at the changing of the seasons. I often regret that I don't visit New York in autumn very much nowadays--my workplace is a fiery 1000 miles away, straight down--but I always remember with fondness my trips there of the past...
...leaves, yielding to the changeless natural circle of life, were decked in brighter hues than in years past. Not because the harvest moon shone higher in the September night. Not because dear old Harvard won any more triumphantly on the football field--though of course it did. No, this autumn will be most pleasurable to me because this autumn two evil men have irretrievably consigned their immortal souls to the burning perdition of Hell...
...words "older woman, younger man," and the images are at once vivid and seamy. Sagging socialites clinging to ambitious gigolos. Predatory Mrs. Robinsons seducing confused innocents. At best such autumn-summer pairings have been viewed as risque; at worst, as grotesque curiosities. Well, look again. The odd couple isn't so odd anymore. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, of the 2 million weddings performed each year in the U.S., 22% are between older women and younger men, up from 16% in 1970. "It signals a profound change in how men and women are looking at each other...
MAYBE IT'S the change of seasons. Autumn is a time to sober up, to come back from the beach, to atone for actually chuckling at every summer's irrelevant, entertaining comedies. Oscar season--all seven months of it--are the perfect time for critics and studios to work off the guilt they've accrued over the summer...