Word: agelessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...photogenic subject to begin with: the ageless, sun-soaked ruins of the Nile Valley. Some of Photographer Hoyningen-Huene's dramatically lighted pictures were made in Egypt, some among the monumental Egyptian sculptures now in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. One of the book's more striking pictures is a restatement of an old theme: Instead of snapping the Pyramid of Cheops, Huene photographs its huge triangular shadow partially blacking the gleaming modern town at its base...
...kind fishermen tried to recover his body, thereby began the custom of the dragon-boat races. But in Chungking last week the festival's origin was less in mind than the chance it gave for a few hours of play, the feeling it gave of China's ageless endurance...
...makeshift remedies were those proposed by a third Indian leader, taut, be spectacled Puran Chandra Joshi, Secretary of the Indian Communist Party. Last week his party met in Bombay, with as much fiery speechmaking as Jinnah's Moslem League had displayed. "Cultural squads" reworded ageless folk tunes into and-Japanese songs. The Bombay sweeper-women gave a specialty dance. Characteristically Indian was one Red chant set to an old devotional tune: "Do not think that revolution means thirst for blood; it means love for a higher life...
...ageless are China's problems and how bitterly Chinese history repeats itself in cycles of wars, floods and famines, TIME Correspondent Teddy White could tell last week from firsthand knowledge. He was just back from a two-week trip through starving Honan Province. His report...
...score is, he had learned to see through big people and little people, he had absorbed some hazy ideas about the Intellectual and Social History of Western Civilization and had for better or worse grown up and set. And all the while the learned old ivy and the ageless wrought-iron gates had gotten more important than the skeptical Vagabond had ever thought they would. He appreciated the feelings of the man who wrote, "The saddest tale we have to tell, is when we bid old Yale farewell," only not Yale...