Word: autumnal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dartmouth showed a similar lack of mud-running ability last week against a slower but stronger Yale squad, and Jake Crouthamel is no doubt echoing Restic's call to the heavens for a clear and dry autumn afternoon which will allow both teams to display their offensive firepower...
...patriarch's autumn ends, he dies, we the crowd rejoice. Politically, socially, Marquez' ending might seem naive. The bureaucracy that will replace the general will be no better. But the book's politics, like its language or imagery, transcend such judgment. Like the Iliad or the Tain. Autumn is so epically true it is unjudgeable. The patriarch is so immense, so all-encompassing, that though mortal, he becomes a fact of nature. And how can an ocean, or a season, be condemned for the death it causes...
Marquez is not merely rooting for "we" vs. "he." Autumn is not a historical picture of a nation oppressed by a man, but a portrait of a man oppressed by his desire for power, finding himself in his old age alone with remembrances of things past...
...matters little how much it will cost. For it is autumn, and, however beautiful, man knows that he does not live by foliage alone. To be renewed, to be properly inscribed in the Book of Life for the coming year, he must drink from the God-given elixir that is Rock...
...Blue Oyster Cult, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Frank Zappa, Lou Reed, Arlo Guthrie, they are truly the harbingers of autumn. It matters little whom you choose; the Pilgrims at Plymouth partook indiscriminately of foods both familiar and exotic--maize and corn, turkey and chicken-dogs; it mattered little. Having partaken of the fruits of the earth, having experienced the God-given bounties of the soil, they were renewed. And surely they fancied themselves well-girt against the cruel winter that followed. And they blessed Plymouth, and not surprisingly, they called it Plymouth Rock. Later...