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Around her, lovers, newly met 'Mid deathless love's acclaims, Spoke evermore among themselves Their rapturous new names; And the souls mounting up to God Went by her like thin flames. Says Professor Sachs slyly: "Every generation is sure that its taste is impeccable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Victorian Surrealists | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

Egypt and Canada. "Let them see the terror we have made," said spread-eagle Major George Fielding Eliot in the New York Herald Tribune. "Let the atomic fires which we shall loose above Bikini set alight the spiritual fires of a common and deathless purpose which shall burn forever upon the altars of a world at peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Back of the Barn | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...with gaiety; he looked at me for a moment with unseeing eyes and then, leaning forward well into the room, he was sick. . . . There was ... a kind of insane and endearing orderliness about Sebastian's choice, in his extremity, of an open window." The episode ended in the deathless friendship of Sebastian and Ryder, solemnized at a luncheon of plovers' eggs and lobster Newburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fierce Little Tragedy | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

...softly falling snow. They are dominated by strange creations of the Slav mind-Baba Yaga (the witch who lives in a little hut that stands on hen's legs), the Sea King (who rises from the depths to enslave human beings), Zhar-ptitsa (the Firebird), Koshchey the Deathless, who is really "little father death." These stories throb with a violence that makes the atrocities of German fairy tales seem tame. If you do not finish by morning, says the Czar curtly, assigning to the hero some impossible task, I will have you shot. A King, enraged at his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mouse & Moujik | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

When Britain's war with Napoleon was brewing in 1803, the martial spirit swept the lyrical circles of Britain's Lake District. Poet William Wordsworth bought himself a red coat, drilled with the Ambleside Volunteers. Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote patriotic sonnets and coined a deathless phrase: "The Corsican upstart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Immortal Hatred | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

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