Word: snow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...season in New England has gotten off to a very slow start; record high temperatures during the month of November meant only a few areas in Northern Vermont could make enough snow to provide decent cover and very little natural snow has fallen thus far. Every year since the record breaking 1968-69 winter, people have come forth with prediction that the upcoming winter, would bring heavy snowfall back to New England. It hasn't happened yet, and if the early trend continues, it won't happen this season...
...last to close in New England. Probably the safest bet for good skiing, at least until the first big, region-wide snowstorm hits or after the baseball season opens. Killington has something to offer everyone, and a lot of it. However, it gets crowded on weekends and good snow gets pretty chewed up by zillions of skiers. Still, when in doubt about snow cover and conditions in New England, Killington is probably the best place to go. 150 miles from Boston...
...From the plane, a fabulous fiery sunset over the estuary of the Rio de la Plata, lights coming on in Uruguay and Argentina on either side of the river. Another sunset, seen from sea level, the eye drawn up walls of ocher, rust and dusty rose to the snow fields on the crest of the Chilean Andes. Everywhere, people of charm, energy, talent, incorrigibly attracted to non-Anglo-Saxon forms of government...
...season's first snow fell outside the Varsity Club, symbolically ushering out a glorious autumn of Harvard football, William D. Emper of Wallingford, Pa., was ushered in as next year's captain...
...Morocco (Curt Anderson), Salerio (John Sedgwick), Nerissa (Meg Vaillancourt), and Jessica (Andrea LaSonde) for their well-executed performances. Launcelot Gobbo (Kevin Grumbach) did some unexpectedly successful things with some of Shakespeare's least inspired clown material, and his father (Peter Frisch) served him as an effective foil. Lorenzo (Danny Snow) managed to project a kind of cortesia Castiglione would have recognized. The only serious miscasting was the Duke of Venice himself (David Garcia) who lacked the eloquence to make his magnanimity seem better than a sham. Graziano (Dan Riviera) left his role in a shambles, just a little too rasping...