Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Afro-American Studies and History, has no air conditioning to relieve the hot weather as he moves into his new office at 77 Dunster St. But while his headquarters may be uncomfortable now, the heat of the summer will be mild compared with the heat Huggins will face in autumn as the new chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department...
...hard to describe the resulting community when a Harvard class of bright, ambitious, largely overconfident but remarkably unstable achievers gathers in a historic setting to acclimatize themselves to the intangible but nonetheless real mystique of the University. To quote one woman who reflected on her Freshman Week last autumn: "How can they expect me to be honest, when everyone is so incredible?" Remember: chances are you're every bit as incredible as anyone else here, but don't let that assumption develop into overweening arrogance. The best approach is to play the game without sacrificing substance for style...
...kinds of disease-resistant elm. But none look like Ulmus americana, and all proved unpopular. Says Plant Pathologist Eugene Smalley: "The resistance thing is the easy part. Getting a tree that nurseries will use, that's tough." Smalley's best hope: a rare hybrid called the Sapporo Autumn Gold elm, a cross of Japanese and Siberian elms. It resists the disease and, at least in its youth, resembles the American...
Once the dust settles from the conventions and autumn winds chase away Detroit's stifling summer humidity, Beebe predicts a drastic change in the three-way presidential race. "We will pick up many of the Republicans who realize they can't support Reagan and many of the Democrats who realize the same thing about Carter. Our candidate will become a serious contender very quickly...very, very quickly." Beebe adds, "What we hear less and less of is, 'Who is this John Anderson?' That's really gratifying...
Among them is Georgi Daneliya, who made the appealing, comic Autumn Marathon (1979). It is about a teacher-translator trying to balance the requirements of his overextended double career with the equally pressing demands of a suspicious wife and a possessive mistress-a situation familiar to members of the Western bourgeoisie. The movie offers an agreeable insight into the life of the educated, privileged class in the Soviet Union...