Word: deathlessly
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...quotations, recorded prayers, bird watchers' bulletins, and even (in Boston) advice to those contemplating suicide. Teen-agers could hardly live without the telephone--and many parents can hardly live with it. Twisted into every position--so long as it is uncomfortable--teen-agers keep the busy signals going with deathless conversation: "What ya doin? Yeah. I saw him today. Yeah. I think he likes me. Wait'll I change ears. Whaat? Hold on till I get a glass of milk...
...Harvard disciplinary rules to which the Crimson editorial referred were principally written—Goodwin, who cited the very sources she has been accused of not crediting, had not the slightest intention to deceive, to claim originality for thoughts that were unoriginal, or to appropriate another’s deathless prose in hopes that she might be credited with a literary gift that belongs in truth to someone else. And there can be no doubt that, unlike any number of historians and others who have been caught falsifying as fact what was, in truth, fantasy—either about their...
...their meal ticket. But Cramer is an all-star reporter, and if his fertile prose at times sprouts too many colloquial tendrils and exclamatory blossoms, it soon gives way to the sheer muscle of his facts. Oddly, the book's weakest part is the section on DiMaggio's deathless entanglement with Marilyn Monroe. Here Cramer skitters close to melodramatics, as if he couldn't trust the epic unfathomability of the relationship to speak for itself...
...deathless man keeps resurfacing, most recently in a Masterpiece Theatre adaptation of The Return of the Native and now in a huge biography, Martin Seymour-Smith's Hardy (St. Martin's Press; 886 pages; $35). The latter is bulky enough to allow carrying it to qualify as aerobic exercise; its readers may wind up as hardy as Hardy. You might expect a smaller volume, given his relatively uneventful life. Born into a family of masons, he spent his days mostly in rural Dorset. Max Gate, the mansion he built for himself and lived in for more than 40 years...
...Maud at a time when the income tax was either nonexistent or in its infancy and when a dollar was worth 15 times what it is today. From its very beginnings, the profession of opera singing has probably been marked as much by acquisitiveness as by great artistry and deathless vocalism...