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TIME rings the bell again with its fine sense of connotation in "Mood Menace" [Aug. 12]. A pox on all pretentious, middlebrow music, not good enough to be good and not honest enough to be vulgarly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 2, 1957 | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...pox upon you, sir, for enticing the reader into your excellent article on the heart by means of a cover picture, and then not explaining the purpose of that weird, quasi-spaceman-type accoutcrment adorning Bailey's eyeglasses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 15, 1957 | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

Kudos for your article, and a pox on the bigoted segregationists of Montgomery, Ala. Thank you for opening my eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 11, 1957 | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

...election meant that "a new political generation had come of age with promising concepts of how Government ought to be run." I'm happy to be associated with those apostles of error in Government affairs: Adlai Stevenson, John Kennedy, George Kennan and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. A pox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 3, 1956 | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...training for the race both have avoided the outbreak of chicken pox which has struck several members of the crew. They have received favorable mention in the British press. The London Times, in particular, singled out Monks in its dally reports on the Cambridge work-outs. Writes the paper's correspondent, "Monks is their king pin, and dominates the crew. To see him start a hard paddle is a Joy, for he can move a mountain of water...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Crimson Oarsmen View English Crew | 3/24/1955 | See Source »

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