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Frivolous, you say; self-indulgent too. Never mind, say I. People who sneer thus are merely afflicted with geography envy; they are wedded to the misconception that a glorious autumn must be followed by a dark and dreary winter. There are those, nurtured on another coast, who believe nothing great can be accomplished where palm trees grow outdoors. The technical innovations in electronics and biotechnology begotten by labs at Stanford and Berkeley, not to mention the invention of the Jefferson Airplane, put the lie to such wrongheaded thinking. Important things do happen here...
...handful of actors have enough box-office clout to get produced pretty much any show they want to appear in. One is George C. Scott, who last came to Broadway in 1986 as an aging, derelict Huck Finn in an unpopular bit of myth debunking called The Boys in Autumn. Now Scott is back as a quintessential foxy grandpa, all harmless cuss words and mock-fierce benevolence, in a sentimental 1938 comedy-drama about an old man's battle of wits with death, personified as the prissy bureaucrat Mr. Brink. Scott's new role may be at the opposite...
...going down and the shadows were lengthening as my friends and I slowly trudged out of the Yard. Over at Weld Hall, the "We Love Our Neil!" and "We Love Neil More!" banners quivered in the autumn breeze. As we moved toward Massachusetts Avenue, I wondered when the residents would clamber out onto the fire escapes and take their banners down...
...afterglow of the allied victory in the gulf war last spring, the U.S. economy seemed ready to shake off its malaise. Consumer confidence rose sharply, and sales of cars and homes began to shift into high gear. But in the clear light of autumn, that hopeful moment seems long gone. Despite assertions from Washington and most economists that the recession ended last May, the recovery may be the weakest in postwar history, and many sectors could even be sliding backward. "The situation is far worse than the government would like us to believe, and things are going to remain this...
...percent of students Harvard has endorsed for the Rhodes Scholarship fell to its lowest in five years this autumn, according to Office of Career Services (OCS) figures...