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...woman, an awful-looking hag, pushed her face through the window of the car and spat in my face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Death to Carlini! | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

Theological Schizophrenia. Editor Morrison has no illusions that anti-Catholicism will butter any Protestant parsnips. Protestantism can never win America, he knows, unless it boldly stands up to "proclaim its own gospel." It will never do this, he thinks, as long as it is hag-ridden by the twin evils of old-fashioned conservatism and liberalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Protestant Prescription | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

Just what do you critics expect from a generation that has been brought up on comic books, flabby popular music, motion pictures that are hag-ridden by the Hays office and the Legion of so-called Decency, and the unending flood of nauseating pap that drools from our shiny little radios? Who is responsible for the fact that our young men now helling about Europe and lousing up the reputation of the U.S. have their heads stuffed with nonsense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 3, 1945 | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

...playwriting became a tangled, stunted vine, his poetry blazed like a burning bush. There Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan, tended his daughter Miranda, shipwrecked his enemies by waving his magic wand, ruled over the spirit Ariel, all speed and light, and the monster Caliban, that "freckled whelp hag-born." There also the shipwrecked men tediously conspired and caroused. When, at the last - his enemies forgiven, Ariel and Caliban set free - Prospero forswears magic, he seems indeed (as many men have thought) to symbolize Shakespeare himself, breaking his own poetic wand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Feb. 5, 1945 | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

...killed in the war. Devon, saddened by life and threatened by hag-lines, prepares to market her latest perfume, Midnight Tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lay That Pistil Down, Babe | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

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