Word: agelessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began writing the dialogue again in 1948. Somehow much of Barnaby's appeal disappeared, and the number of papers fell off by almost half. Last week Johnson announced that next month he will end Barnaby altogether. Although Barnaby readers always assumed that the child was ageless, Johnson said not so. Barnaby is finally growing up. He will soon reach his sixth birthday, and six-year-olds need no fairy godfathers...
...varying degrees, these characters all come to terms with life, and into balance with themselves, through a subtle mingling of their experience and the symbolic lesson of their surroundings: the serene, endless flow of the river, the patient, ageless ways of the people in the boats, the bazaars and the temples...
Very little of old Boston is left in Scollay Square, but what does remain seems to be ageless. The greatest staying power is found in the bars that line the Square and the alleys that lead out of it. Boston's first taprooms were located in the area, and if the current population has anything to say about it. Boston's last taprooms will be there...
Christopher Fry has conceived an ageless moral problem in soft verse and poetic action. "Thor, With Angles" sets this problem in 6th century England where a Jute warrior repents his war spirit and, with fear and no dogmatism, becomes a Christian. "We are afraid," he says, in peroration, "To live by the rule of God, which is forgiveness,/Mercy and compassion, fearing that by these/ We shall be ended. And yet if we could bear/These three through dread and terror and terror's doubt . . . I cannot think/We should be the losers...
Moliere's comedy is ageless, though it is set in 17th century Paris. Tartuffe is a sanctimonious cleric who attempts to seduce a bourgeois' wife and wealth. The consequent humor abounds in the amusing situation and the clever play on words. It is a humor which lampoons hypocrisy and stuffiness until both are laid...