Word: timelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (Spoken Word, 3 LPs) gets a fine new production by the players of the Dublin Gate Theatre, with Michael MacLiammoir as Malvolio, "sick of self-love," posturing his priggish way with timeless vulgarity. London is also out with a spate of Shakespeare-Coriolamis, Othello, Julius Caesar, Richard II-in a series of journeyman readings by the Marlowe Society players, who eventually will press all the plays. One of the most majestically read of the talking books is MGM's Joseph Conrad, in which Sir Ralph Richardson whittles Youth and Heart of Darkness to half...
...look on the bright side because the American premiere of Ugo Betti's masterpiece is not an event to be missed. For later productions will fully certify its claim to be one of the great plays of the twentieth century--as timely as the latest headline from Geneva, as timeless as the struggle of man's will with fate...
...Greeks strove to hold a timeless image up to man. The Romans grew to love the grandiose and the particular. The Etruscans, who insisted that art must above all else be expressive, and who felt free to warp and distort their images to infuse them with energy, are equally the ancestors of Western...
...love and memory are enough; he has fashioned a timeless frieze of the titans and the lotus eaters of the '20s. It is perhaps typical of Loeb that a decade later he was a devotee of technocracy. His generation could never escape the Gatsby Syndrome, the belief in "the green light" ever beckoning toward an elusively perfect tomorrow...
...Greek marble, planned as a 30-ft, focal point for the International Arrivals building at Idlewild Airport (the New York Port Authority turned it down). Often, Noguchi complains, "architects want something that is timely. I want to get back to the real problem of sculpture and do something timeless...