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Among the mainstays of 2020 claimed by the pandemic: Spring

By MALLIKA SEN renewal and rebirth, spring
Associated Press is ever more precious in
By the time spring arrived a world beset by climate
in the Northern Hemisphe- change. After dark win-
re, the pandemic had the ters, spring arrives and the
world firmly in its grip. earth turns green again.
The vernal equinox arrived The word itself is shorthand
March 19, the day Califor- for revolutionary move-
nia handed down the first ments — the Springtime of
statewide stay-at-home Nations (1848), the Prague
order in the United States. Spring (1968), the Arab
Most of the country would Spring (2010-2012). Igor
soon follow suit. In the co- Stravinsky chose “The Rite
ming weeks, vast swaths of of Spring” in 1913 to chart
humanity would be largely new musical frontiers.
confined to their homes. April lies at the heart of the
Now, midway through poetic spring. Shakespeare
spring, people are already takes a jaunty view of it in
fretting about summer. The his “Sonnet 98,” personify-
spring of 2020 — for human ing it as a month that “hath In this March 26, 2020, file photo, a person takes in the afternoon sun amongst the cherry blos-
beings, at least — has be- put a spirit of youth in eve- soms along Kelly Drive in Philadelphia.
come the season that isn’t. rything.”
Long considered a time of Continued on Page 25 Associated Press