Word: priceless
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During my 1975 visit to Iraq I returned the first of these priceless tablets, and I know how important the completion of that return is to the people of that country. The voluntary action by Harvard this week in sending back the rest of these 3500-year-old records is an important contribution to international goodwill and will return handsome dividends when American archeologists seek permission to borrow and study the relics of other nations around the world. Edward M. Kennedy...
...doubt the society needs ants more than grasshoppers, who jump dazzlingly but probably don't keep up their aerobics points. Perhaps each sort of bug should listen to Dr. George Sheehan, 58, marathoner, author (Dr. Sheehan on Running) and cardiologist: "Play is the priceless ingredient in any successful fitness program. But ... play is not just fun and pleasure. It has to do with human need. Fitness is something that has purpose but no meaning. Play is something that has meaning but no purpose; fitness is a bonus in play, and people are finally learning how to play...
Director Joan Micklin Silver treats Barron's memories with comparable fondness. Between the Lines, like its characters, presents itself as eminently likeable. Some of its individual sequences are funny in a delicate, almost priceless way. There is the scene, for example, in which Stanley, all mustache and glasses, defends himself against Lynn's charges that he had sexual intentions towards her during their last date. She: "You were literally on my body." He: "That's your perception of the situation...
...energy crisis [May 2] affords Americans a priceless, if sad opportunity for self-awareness. Priceless, in that we shall find out once and for all whether there is anything in American life stronger than vulgar materialism and mindless hedonism. Sad, in that there are few reasons to trust that in the struggle for energy, justice will prevail over selfish vested interest. But at least we'll all see ourselves for what we really are. Norman Ravitch Grenoble, France
...second edition of Lyrical Ballads, which appeared in 1800. Also on display are The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, An Elegy Wrote in a Country Churchyard, and James Boswell's manuscript of The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., which Martz says is "literally priceless...