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...less tribute than it deserves. True, some mixed notices have come in over the centuries. Horace slandered autumn as a "dread" period-"harvest-season of the Goddess of Death." He was dead wrong, of course, for as Ovid noted, once he got his mind off sex, autumn is "cum formossisimus annus"-"the fairest season of the year." Had he lived a little later, Horace might have found out from the U.S. Census Bureau that the death rate is usually lower in autumn than in winter and spring. Why? Science doesn't know, but it is quite possible that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: A Season for Hymning and Hawing | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

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