Word: aeon
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...cocktail aeon in the Elysian Fields, and the composers gathered at Calliope's. "Let whoever will make a nation's laws," said someone for the millionth time, "if I can make its songs." There was a silence. "Who makes Amer ica's songs these days?" asked Stephen Foster. George Gershwin removed his cigar. "No one you know," he said. "Or probably ever will." "It depends what you mean by the word song," observed Jerome Kern mildly...
Book of the Aeon judges (please take
...Reviewer Sterling North, who has been similarly provoked before, to a brisk whirl of Drydenesque heroic couplets. In 32 rough (but sometimes very ready) didactic verses, he reproduced a spat between "Seraph Pro" and "Archangel Con," before a Heavenly Critics' jury for the Book of the Aeon Club...
...will follow you with stammered thanks from aeon to aeon until, irked by having no peace even in the hereafter, you will consign me to Hell! Then you will no longer hear me, but I can assure you that I will continue to stammer my thanks even there. Until that moving catastrophe will have occurred, I will once more presume on your kindness. . . . Your servant, eternally devoted to you with heart and blood...
...early ambition to be a painter was thwarted because of lack of money, and instead he began to write poetry in his spare time. It is at this time that Russell became "AE." He used the pseudonym Aeon in signing his poems. This was shortened by a careless typesetter to the letters AE, which he has since written under this name...