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Winter is icummen in, Lhude sing Goddamm, Raineth drop and staineth slop, And how the wind doth ramm! Sing: Goddamm Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us, An ague hath my ham. Freezeth river, turneth liver, Damm you, sing: Goddamm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A PARODY SAMPLER | 1/13/1961 | See Source »

...like poets (Keats: "It is astonishing how they raven down scenery like children do sweetmeats"), playwrights (Shakespeare's Juliet: "No man like he doth grieve my heart") and grammarians (Bergen and Cornelia Evans: A Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage) should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 14, 1960 | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

Dear Tod, we like your savoir-faire Direct and deft and debonair. No pitch, no plaques, no benefits, No Ladies' Aid, no worker kits. Half-Nelson tactics aren't your dish You twist your ring and state your wish. The genie hears: Voila, a champ. The oil doth pour from Nelson's lamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 23, 1960 | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

Divinity v. Publicity. He needed these qualities when, on his ascension, he stepped into what he called an "inevitable mess." He learned that for a popular modern monarchy it is not so much divinity as publicity that doth hedge a king, and that for the first time since Queen Victoria's early widowhood, a British king, his mercurial brother, had forfeited the royal immunity from criticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Only a Naval Officer | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself . . . And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness. For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner . . . Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: King James: | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

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