Word: autumns
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Strange and viciously unseasonable was U.S. weather last week. Snow came, heat came, drought came, wind came-in all sizes: little capfuls that scuttered leaves along a million autumn sidewalks, breezes that sailed or deadened thousands of punted footballs; squalls, gales, tempests; a hurricane, a tornado...
While Queen Bess and other principals hold the forestage, for instance, village supers clad in sackcloth creep among the trees, unable to make themselves heard through the wind as they chant: "Digging and delving, hedging and ditching, we pass. . . . Summer and winter, autumn and spring return. . . . All passes but we, all changes . . . but we remain forever the same. . . ." They remind you of Evelyn Waugh; yet in Mrs. Woolf's many-planed perspective they are also in truth the nameless human swarm...
...White House press conference with little enthusiasm. Lately the President had mumbled no-comments to most questions. The crowd of newshawks shifted irritably in the heat of the office, gazed dully through the French windows at a half-dozen laborers listlessly raking dead leaves on the south lawn. The autumn...
...southwest, a rutted road winds through a field of rye, decayed in the autumn rain. There, like monster footprints, are the holes dug by the Russian shells that followed the retreating Germans, blasting hurriedly laid coils of barbed wire, ferreting out artillery positions, mangling innumerable machines...
...symphony orchestras are mostly silent in summer and little Wag ner is played then (except on high-class recorded programs like WQXR). This autumn and winter, there is every likelihood that Reader Hunley will again get his fill of "the greatest dramatic music...