Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...England Telephone rather unfairly contributes to the spring fever epidemic. Practically every day since the first tulips shyly presented some tightly closed buds, I have felt myself being propelled to the phone in quest of a pronouncement on the day's weather. Actually, it has become kind of a ritual. The alarm goes off. I ecstatically leap--okay, so I blurrily stumble--from my bed and head straight for the phone. After doing my sun dance and propitiating the various rain deities, I slowly dial the prophetic seven numbers: 936-1111. This, of course, is not easy with...
Then the oracle is spoken. That god of all gods, accuweather meteorologist Rich Heller, describes the prevailing weather patterns. As he patiently explains the day in terms of barometric pressure, cool fronts and zonal flows. I feel my blood rising. Finally, I can stand it no longer. "Spring!" I scream as I throw the phone clear across the room in disgust. "Spring!" I scream as my roommate sleepily pokes her head from she bedroom. Still raving, I run from the room. In the distance a neutral voice repeats again and again: "Have a good day, and thank you for calling...
...wrong. I am usually very calm, a rational person, not prone to fits. Really. But there is something about a New England winter that makes me really desperate for warm, sunny weather. And I think that five months of freezing rain makes most people feel the same way. In fact almost all of us display a few of the symptoms of spring fever. It is, after all, called spring finals. And we do have our spring formals just about...
Imagine this courtyard full of carefree, scantily clad young people, and then realize that once again New England weather has played a sadistic trick. For what we have here is a mob of goose bumpy, shivering, bluish victims of spring fever. Poor fools myself included who insist that it is spring just because the calendar tells us that it is April Just the other morning Rich Heller wisely warned us that it was going to be only partly sunny and that although it might be in the 60's inland, those near the coast must grapple with 50 degree weather...
...beautiful tennis weather--sunny, a light breeze and temps nearing 80--when Harvard ace Elizabeth Evans sizzled her first serve and got the ball rolling for the 8-3 (3-0 Ivies) Crimson...