Word: timelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four players perform bravely, despite a script which is about as suspenseful as "Little Red Riding Hood." The Victorian setting provides the necessaries for melodrama: a heavily-draped living room, flickering candles, and a swinging chandelier. There are other timeless devices, such as nighttime storm and strange offstage noises which supplement the generally trite plot. Bail Langton's direction would be better appreciated if the play were a strong one. It is correctly slow-paced and would emphasize the tension that must be written in as really good melodrama...
...that his earlier, slicker works lacked. The sitter's pensive, bloodshot eyes pierced the murk in which Rembrandt had muffled him; his melancholy, tight little smile reminded some visitors of the Mono, Lisa. Like her, the Young Man seemed to be silently inviting the spectator to enter the timeless, painted world in which he stood...
...unpalatable, but they also heard tonal colors never produced by four stringed instruments before. In the Fifth (1934) and Sixth (1939), Bartok reaped his harvest. Like Beethoven's last (Op. 155), Bartok's final quartet, composed six years before he died, is full of deep and timeless beauty...
Unlike Eliot, Playwright Fry writes to the heart more than to the head, with a controlled, compassionate irony that rates love above every other human emotion. Not only does he dare to be exuberantly romantic, he dares it in verse. And he dares to reach for timeless meanings rather than immediate credulities by making the time 1400, "either more or less or exactly," and the setting an ordinary English market town called Cool Clary...
...received from TIME Perpetual Subscriber 101, a German living in Germany. He writes: "Having had the doubtful privilege of living in a totalitarian state for 12 years, I have been deprived of reading TIME for many years . . . When war broke out I had to put up with a dreary, TiMEless life. For an old perpetual, this was truly an ordeal. Now I am getting TIME again at the very date of issue, like any New Yorker, although I live in a tiny community some four miles from a railroad station...