Word: methuselah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bible. Because of the difficulty of unwrapping the fragile leather, only a four-by-eight-inch fragment containing 26 lines has been studied so far. The snippet, says Dr. Trever, seems to be a discussion between Noah's father, Lamech, his mother, Bithenosh, and his grandfather, Methuselah, about their ark-building offspring...
Feeling young again, Gus guessed that after one more light-heavyweight fight he would go gunning for the heavyweight crown. After all, Bob Fitzsimmons was a Methuselah of 35 when he became heavyweight champ back...
...Thakin Nu, Premier of newly independent Burma, he sent a good-will copy of Back to Methuselah, confided that he considered it his masterpiece...
...Methuselah, the ancient of ancients, lived 969 years, according to the Bible. Modern Bible scholars estimate that he actually lived 192. But, according to Bernard Shaw, "the legend of Methuselah is neither incredible nor unscientific." In a postscript to Back to Methuselah, Shaw contended that death is "unnatural" and that man may some day achieve immortality...
...classic part of Back to Methuselah, as a play, is the first part, a beautiful Shavian comedy of the Garden of Eden. The second part is second-rate drawing-room Shaw, and most of the rest is cerebral claptrap in settings of 2170 A.D., 3000 A.D. and 31,920 A.D. If the comic spirit were not alive in these scenes they would almost fall into the class of Wellsian monstrosity...