Word: timeless
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...such clients as Doris Duke and Aristotle Onassis; of a heart attack; in Athens, where he had lived since 1964. Robsjohn-Gibbings moved to the U.S. from his native London in the '30s and set up shop on Manhattan's East Side. To re-create the "timeless" furniture of the classic period, he spent years studying ancient Grecian art. A sprightly, caustic author, he took on the antiques business and modern art in two bestselling books: Goodbye, Mr. Chippendale (1945) and Mona Lisa's Mustache...
...hung around after opening night and finally handed Strehler a message typed on an envelope. It asked Strehler to be the artistic custodian of Brecht's works, not just in Italy but in all of Europe. Brecht died the next year, and Strehler has carried on. His timeless, yet utterly contemporary staging of The Life of Galileo is considered a classic, used as guidance even by the famed Berliner Ensemble...
...regrets of the political parrying that surrounds the Olympics is that it threatens to overwhelm the simpler drama of athletes straining to find-and then surpass-their physical limitations. Even if the athlete cannot shave a second off his mortality, he can at least add a moment of timeless honor to the human record...
...going to war. Self-defense - and even survival - are the most compelling. But religion, with its ancient, emotional connotations, shows up in these wars like a tribal ghost of Hamlet's father, urging revenge. Religion, especially when it blends with the secular religion of nationalism, fetches back to timeless grievances and can find in them that nasty, righteous "Gott mil Uns" that wants no truck with the enterprise of peace - which in this world is always temporal and temporary...
Army Secretary Martin Hoffmann, who spoke at commencement, gave the code a more ringing vote of confidence, then promptly qualified it. He described the code as a "timeless" statement of principles. But, he said after the ceremonies, "if conditions warrant, we'll make changes...