Word: autumnal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...including Radcliffe students who were often too frightened to attend evening meetings away from the Quad, Harvard leased two buses on an experimental basis to transport students, free of charge, between the yard, the Business School and Radcliffe, from 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. every day. After a slow autumn, when the buses were usually empty, the program began to gain momentum. By February what seemed like fleets of old rattling buses were careening all over the campus, with service expanded and students packed in shoulder to shoulder...
...consumer confidence index maintained by the University of Michigan's respected Survey Research Center hit its alltime low late last year, and researchers say that it has probably fallen even further since then. A similar index maintained by the Conference Board has dropped 40 points since last autumn, to less than 60 today. Albert Sindlinger, whose Swarthmore, Pa., telephone polling organization takes weekly readings of consumer sentiment, has recorded what he calls the sharpest drop in confidence in 25 years...
Freshmen Jeff Campbell, a cross country phenom who has had a somewhat obscure winter season, showed some signs of his autumn speed, when he placed second in the mile...
...FALL of 1967 was to be the last fall Kimberly Roth would spend in Troy. Autumn makes no mark on this new Detroit suburb. Trees have not had time enough to grow as have the elms of the inner city. And the air, sulphurous and choked as always, has brought blight to the few infant trees, imported and sculptured in thick rows between the yards of the condominiums to impart exclusiveness. They look siliconed, as do the laws which are sod carpets purchased ready-made and transplanted by unrolling...
...feeling of typicalness about them. The Donald Sutherland character, at least, is engaged in an intellectual, noble activity--saving Venice. The couple go to Venice to get over their daughter's death. Venice here is a beautiful city but with a feeling of danger about it. It is late autumn, the end of the tourist season, damp and windy. The strange Venetian cats are vaguely frightening. And as John says of the church he's working on: "The deeper we get the more Byzantine it gets...