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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to my dictionary, the first meaning of the word "sow" is the "full-grown female of the swine." Therefore, I question the type of "priestly inauguration" held in Jerusalem between 73 and 63 B.C. that served "oysters" (no scales or fins) and "mussels" (no scales or fins) and "sow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 31, 1958 | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

Since then, week after week, TIME has reported the facts and the meaning of events of lasting importance in politics, science, economics, religion and the arts. In the arts this week, TIME focuses on the worldwide works of Architect Edward D. Stone (see COVER), whose U.S. Pavilion will be the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 31, 1958 | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

"Money really had no meaning for Ed," says Orlean. "Talent was his greatest motivating force. He said himself that he was first married to architecture, and that was very true."In 1949 she moved out.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: More Than Modern | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

This is a promising first novel that breaks a lot of its promises. It promises a richly informative account of voodoo and the Haitian mind and temper, but much of it is just tom-tommyrot. It promises distinction of thought, but a jungle growth of involuted sentences often chokes meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dot Ole Davil Voodoo | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

Asian flu faced U.S. disease detectives with a puzzle last week. The nation's big-city health departments were noting an upsurge in deaths due to influenza and pneumonia (meaning, mostly, pneumonia as influenza's aftermath). In Dallas the rate was 150% above normal, in New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Flu: Second Round | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

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