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...relocated Easterner I have tried for two years to pretend that Southern California has an autumn season. I put corn on the door, wheat by the mantel -and long for a brisk wind to put "apples" in my cheeks. For all my hard work I'm rewarded with a Santa Ana wind and hot, dry, hellish weather. I think it's a cruel price to pay for a gloriously sunny January...
Autumn is honest, it does not pretend to be heaven. Yet almost everybody recognizes that the season's character transcends those familiar bracing days, crystal nights, bigger stars, vaulted skies, fluted twilights, harvest moons, frosted pumpkins and that riotous foliage that impels whole traffic jams of leaf freaks up into New England (even though Columnist Russell Baker has reminded them that "if you've seen 1 billion leaves, you've seen them all"). What is not widely recognized is that autumn is richly enhanced simply by what it is not. Specifically, it is not summer, winter...
Arthur MacEwen, a former Harvard economics professor who now teaches economics at UMass, Boston, says it is "excessively naive at best" for HIID to consider itself an apolitical organization. "When you become an adviser, you can't pretend you're not involved with the politics of the client government, and HIID has done work with some pretty despicable governments in the past...
...newspapers ban sex-film ads but not those for other questionable products, like liquor and cigarettes. Some newspaper executives believe it is futile to try to dictate morality at all. Says Louisville's Vernon Johnston: "We aren't going to make moral decisions for our readers and pretend these places don't exist...
...Myth of God Incarnate [Aug. 15] is another jaded attempt to season Jesus to the palate of current sophistry. Editing the Bible according to what one chooses to accept may be popular, but cannot pretend to integrity of scholarship...