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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...
City Lights. Charlie Chaplin's 19-year-old but ageless "comedy romance in pantomime'' (TIME, April...
Different as they all were, an apparently ageless youth was one trait all held in common: all of them were 60 or over; their average age was 70. And they held a common artistic philosophy: that nature is not a subject to be imitated and recorded on canvas, but is simply a jumping-off place for whatever an artist thinks or feels. Unlike their impressionist forebears, who painted what looked like windows opening onto sunny worlds, the young old men of the Paris school had long since shut the windows and painted whatever they liked on the glass...
City Lights. Charlie Chaplin's 19-year-old but ageless "comedy romance in pantomime" (TIME, April...