Word: vernalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...snowing heavily. Winter was having a last grand gesture before the vernal equinox arrived to formally announce spring. The snow glittered as it swirled around headlights and street lamps. It covered Cambridge clean and white beneath the black sky. The Square, too, swirled--with its overload of traffic, its wanderers, its happy groups, its solitary, carefully-dressed people whose hurry spoke of imminent rendezvous...
During her last year, the poet told a friend that the leaves were calling to her, telling her to die and join them. The conclusion of "Leaves That Talk" rings with a vernal premonition...
...American musical, dance has sketched a profile of the U.S., both geographically and psychologically. There has been the rustic rondelay, a handholding, earth-stamping ritual testifying to the vernal purity of the prairie. There has been the subway serenade-urban jostle, excitement and speed. Always there has been the brassy audacity of a nation that flung railroads like dice across the breadth of a vast continent...
...wish I could be a grain of sand on the vernal road...
...THOU METTEST with things dying, I with things new-born!" With this stirring line "The Winter's Tale" shifts from the wintry tragedy of its first part to the vernal romance of its second. Ripping apart the links of that Great Chain of Being with disease and death in the first acts, the play reassembles them with health and life in the last ones. The Loeb Ex version of this mythic renewal breathes life, but not robust good health...