Word: changelessly
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...springy stride, walking behind her husband's casket. To others, it was Hail to the Chief, or the Navy hymn, or Onward, Christian Soldiers. To some, it was the ageless rituals of the Roman Catholic Church. But to others, it was the fact that those rituals are not changeless-as evidenced when Richard Cardinal Gushing, Archbishop of Boston, who had married John and Jacqueline Kennedy and baptized their children, neared the end of the Requiem Mass and cried in his strangely discordant voice: "May the angels, dear Jack, lead you into Paradise...
...Proust, or Pope, the humanist cannot forget that his primary responsibility is to the national culture, not to the Modern Language Association, and that oncoming generations, through they should be generously encouraged to believe that beauty is its own excuse for being, must also be strictly taught the changeless meaning of the three most powerful words in any dialect--justice, virtue, and love; concepts that arise out of history in spite of the fact that, or because, history too frequently denies them. The imperative task of humans teaching is, interpreting history, to lead men to ponder upon and accept...
...nonportrait paintings. There are still lifes by the Peales of Philadelphia, the U.S.'s first painting family. A porthole painting of Niagara Falls by John Kensett, a member of the Hudson River school, is typical of the characteristic U.S. landscape style in which the vista is distant and changeless...
...Changeless Isolation. In the half-century since Schweitzer came to Lambaréné with his wife Hélène and performed his first operation in a converted hen house, the mission has expanded but otherwise changed little. At the river landing there are only pirogues, crude dugout canoes, the one type of river ambulance Schweitzer will use. ("Brancardier! Brancardier!" [stretcher bearer] the oarsmen cry when they arrive with an emergency.) The hospital compound is without telephone, running water or refrigeration, has electricity only in the main building, which houses the tiny, antiquated operating theater. Sterilization is carried...
...read from dials or other display devices. One promising version of the new system will use the sun as a kind of North Pole. But as man's machines get farther into space, the scanner might locate a prominent star such as Sirius and use it as the changeless anchor point of the spacecraft's sense of direction...