Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cappella groups are a timeless part of the rites of autumn. For the past few years, they have welcomed first-year students with their perenially popular Freshman Jam, and hardly an Ivy League football game passes without an a cappella ensemble celebrating it with a concert. The a capella groups have always revelled in this season of Ivy League festivity. Though the Krokodiloes have existed in their present form only since 1946, they date their tradition back to the founding of the Hasty Pudding Club...
...consuming process when your letters are traveling thousands of miles and when you may be corresponding with someone who is not quite sure how to deal with an American student's request for a job. For a summer job, it's not unreasonable to begin this process in the autumn, even though you shouldn't expect a definite offer before the spring...
...these teams, the thrill is in finishing first, not fast. In a pennant race, closeness is all, and 1990 could boast a crucial series: Toronto-Boston last weekend, with brilliant, battered Roger Clemens appearing - to pitch the Sox to a tangy win. Early autumn abounds in such epiphanies. But then what? The survivors, already winded like nicotine addicts in a marathon, will have to consider a more daunting task: facing the Oakland Athletics...
YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL. It's a bit like going to the U.S. Open for the girls' singles, hoping to spot next year's Capriati. This annual autumn event in Manhattan offers an evening of one-act plays by aspiring dramatists, who must be under 18 at the time of submission. The works, typically, are much ado about first love and sensitive, misunderstood youth; typically, also, at least one of the sketches shows potential genius struggling toward maturity. Through...
...delivery featherlight. And she can sing too, bringing her uniquely precise passion to ballads and down-home rave-ups. "I don't want life to imitate art," Suzanne says with her usual blithe exasperation. "I want life to be art." This comedy is art, as exhilarating as the first autumn breeze after a summer of movie bloat...