Word: timeless
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...VOICE CRIES OUT from hell, the hell of a Texas prison camp, describing how he was able to survive, to get by, to live. A song is such a simple mechanism, but it gives a sense of time to men in a timeless situation; it allows them to order their lives in an environment that attempts to usurp that prerogative...
...their centuries-old skills to fashion land mines. Saigon has become an arsenal of U.S. consumer goods, from prefab houses to athlete's foot powder, ordered and sometimes resold by Saigon officials. Since U.S. personnel changes roughly every twelve months, Americans tend to maintain a kind of earnest, timeless sangfroid, but around them have gathered "professional beggars, pimps, drug dealers, thieves-a Brechtian cast of characters in the midst of a new Thirty Years...
...also over matched in the role, lacking Richard son's explosive charm and easy com mand. Under Edwin Sherin's impeccable direction, a dozen character sketches in depth are expertly rendered. The British accents are flawless and the set is hermetically sealed in a world of timeless Edwardia...
...songs were set to jazz, and being a Milne traditionalist, I didn't particularly like this updating of Pooh's world. The Hundred Acre Wood is an isolated timeless spot that shouldn't be influenced by the kind of modern pop music that Charlie Brown and his Peanuts setting fit in with. To preserve Pooh's nature, his songs should be just his usual off-key ramblings, subtle, pleasant; not orchestrated jazz...
...Hughes' Essay. I too have observed the slow cultural suicide of Italy. The destruction of Italian art is a disaster because it is one of the few human creations with universal appeal. Unlike the beer can-disposable, faddish art of today, a Bernini or Leonardo has a unique, timeless quality...