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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 23, 1925 | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

...term "pander," as you should have recalled, is derived from the proper name "Pandarus." Need I add that Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Shakespeare all represent Pandarus, a son of Lycaon and leader of the Lycians in the Trojan war, as an unmitigated pimp, who procured Cressida for the dissolute Troilus? To a scholarly mind your use of pander in place of "agent" and without the connotation of lasciviousness is intolerably careless. Thomas Cook & Son are no more panders than is a magazine such as TIME. Neither attains to the requisite taint of immorality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 23, 1925 | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

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