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...AUTUMN AFTERNOON. Yasujiro Ozu's last film, made in 1963: a serene, masterly speculation on the encroachments...
...depending on our mood, laugh at something we concede is witty, or shake our heads and mutter, "Puerile." Both pastimes are enjoyable. The Lampoon book also makes a nice tray to carry drinks or hot dishes to the table. I suspect it would do an admirable job pressing autumn leaves, but we'll have to wait till autumn rolls around to put it to the test...
This year it is not merely another winter that has begun to creep in unnoticed. It is a whole new kind of season, fraught with inconvenience, deprivation and uncertainty. The chilling prospect of an energy crisis has been in the air all autumn, but Americans are just beginning to realize that the winter of their sourest discontent is at hand. As December arrived last week, power cuts were beginning in the Northeast, energy experts in Washington were saying that gasoline rationing is all but inevitable, and filling stations across the country began a presidentially ordered routine of Sunday closings. Fewer...
Born. To Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, 41, vice chairman of the 1972 Democratic Convention and first member of the House of Representatives to be granted maternity leave, and William A. Burke, 34, health care consultant: their first child, a daughter; hi Los Angeles. Name: Autumn Roxanne...
London even shed its sodden skies, and the burnished brass and gold leaf of the cavalry and coaches sparkled in the autumn sunshine. About the only sour note was sounded over the commemorative poem written by Sir John Betjeman; it was his first official literary effort since being named Britain's poet laureat. One Labor M.P. described the lyric as "turgid, unromantic and stamped with mediocrity," and called for Betjeman's resignation. The verse...