1.   All too many of us receive dozens of these nasty notes every month through our electronic mail services.

2.   Instead of joy and delight, how many are receiving the news with skepticism, sarcasm and downright laughter?

3.   Thomas Beebe, the architect, once observed that modernists excelled at pattern-making because it was integral to the Beaux Arts training many of them received.

4.   While some may have been scared by the technology, he said, a good many were presumably receiving benefits improperly.