Word: snow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...steeped in chiffon clouds. Nineteen girls are sliding into slips, blowdrying hair, jostling each other with kid-gloved elbows. Some have brought maids who, in rushing to help their mistresses, nearly bowl the other girls over. The gowns sparkle and rustle and gleam, all as white as the driven snow. One girl is sporting a copy of her mother's wedding dress, another the family pearls. The third wears Grandma's lace-trimmed gloves and no bra.2
...started with snow. Most years do; this one was just unusually cooperative. Snow filled January, floating softly through reading period, building up strength and momentum through examinations, inundating semester break. Then came February, with 27 inches of it, and martial law and Army trucks rattling through deserted streets. Snow set the tone for the coming months: this was to be a year of splendid, horrifying, numbing excess...
...February eased into March, with all the niceties that make a month worth living, if not remembering. The snow blackened and turned to crumbs. The Faculty got ready to make itself famous with this beast called a Core Curriculum, and smiled as The Times and half the other newspapers in the country dropped them onto the front page--not the lead story, to be sure, but still down there on the front page, set in a nice conservative block of type...
...things have ended, closing out a tough year. Nineteen-seventy-eight wound up producing the Core and a student government, a new governor and two new popes, the ballyhooed hope in the Mideast and the equally ballyhooed horror in South America. And of course the snow--soft and gentle, splendid in its beauty as in its potentially horrible strength
They're very proud of the fact--up there in Little Cottonwood Canyon deep in the heart of Mormon-land--that it snows a lot in Alta. So when nature proves them wrong, and when it doesn't snow, they don't say much at all. But sometimes, once in a very long while, Christmas is just a little bit too white and Cottonwood goes...