Word: timeless
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...Mistress (Daiei; Edward Harrison), one of the finest films the Japanese have made, is a poignant restatement of the timeless truth that in the last analysis a social problem is a moral problem, and a moral problem can only have a religious solution...
...flourish under John Harvard's benevolent aegis. But indeed it may be truly said that University Hall's failure to recognize the noble discipline with even a puny half-course is but another reflection of Harvard's inability to adjust to anything--be it past, present, future, or timeless...
...resentment of raddled colors, the sun dipped beneath the great lip of the earth's rim and the landscape dark as an ancient photograph, warm and old as the closed volume of its million passion years, sublimated into the uncomprehending and excellent excrescence of the pale poppy-seed dimension, timeless, in the hand of whatever great essence contains the world in the forests of his brows...
...work . . . Whether Christianity can once again perform that function remains to be seen. To do so would require a pretty radical rebirth of Christian thought, of which I wish I could see more signs. Perhaps we may find such a rebirth in the remembrance of the Birth, that timeless fact about God which did once turn the world upside down. But we shall have to separate the birth from the Cadillacs and the crystal decanters and the ladies' electric shavers...
...keeping his voice down and his judgments out of this first novel, Author Davis. 29. enlists full sympathy for his victim. Though the jacket claims that his book is a blast at "contemporary Ameri can society," it is really a timeless story about two kinds of brutality: that of the criminal who hurts by not caring for the feelings of his victim, and that of the victim's loved ones who hurt even more by not caring enough...