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Steinberg's drawings, which have most frequently appeared in The New Yorker, have a timeless, durable, hieroglyphic quality, as if their acid comments on human affairs had eaten into stone. Steinberg has a great liking for bits of ornamental detail (they are almost his trademark) as in his drawing of Hermann Göring drenched with medals. One of the outstanding drawings in his show portrayed the two sparsely clad Axis dictators in a theater dressing room ("Benito & Adolf-Aryan Dancers...
...symbol of success in unselfishness in the Army is the timeless, ever-present devotion of the good noncommissioned officer and the officer toward their men. The symbol of greatest efforts and infinite pains is in the faithful, ardent, forceful, continuous training of every man to be a soldier, not cannon fodder...
...came 25 years later in The Magic Mountain, a study of "a friendly alter ego" in the midst of "European intellectual controversies." The third great task came in his middle 50s, when Mann found in the story of Joseph a theme embracing "the typical, the eternally human, eternally recurring, timeless-in short, the mythical...
Novelist Angela Thirkell has achieved a devoted readership by reducing the English novel to a humorous commentary on almost complete inaction. Like her master, Anthony Trollope, whose literary landscape (Barsetshire) she has borrowed for her own books, Novelist Thirkell's world is timeless, cloudless, windless. Practically the only motion is that of the British gentry and middle classes pouring tea. Practically the only sound is the titters, snickers and snorts of confirmed Thirkell readers at the foibles of familiar Thirkell characters...
Janie ought to be more fun than it is. It has some amusing lines, some lively moments. It brings a timely touch of khaki to the timeless absurdities of youth. But it isn't buoyant or spontaneous enough; all its breeze seems to come from an electric fan. It has that terrible noisiness which is the bane of too-innocent merriment. Refreshing is the still, small voice of Janie's baby sister Elsbeth (Clare Foley), who at seven is a past mistress of espionage and blackmail. Elsbeth is funny. The rest is formula...