Word: timelessness
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...used again years later. This ability to call up the past gave his columns a resonance that has grown rare in daily journalism. To be sure, some of the 300-odd pieces gathered in these two volumes should have been left in yesterday's newspaper. But most are timeless, literate and witty enough to appeal to readers who do not know the backstretch from the front nine...
...those who introduced the postwar soft, feminine "new look," a welcome relief from the severe, mannish lines of the 1930s and 1940s. His subtly tailored suits and classic dresses could be worn from one year to the next, reflecting Balmain's wish to be timeless rather than trendy, elegant rather than eclectic. "In this heady adventure," he once said of designing, "the most difficult thing is not to be extravagant, but to strip oneself down and know when to stop.'' His only excesses were his sumptuous ball gowns. Creator in 1953 of Jolie Madame perfume, Balmain worked...
Director Trevor Nunn, who can thread the needle's eye of nuance and possesses a searching eye for detail, has set the play in what the late Kenneth Tynan called "a timeless Edwardia." Helena, a kind of lady-in-waiting to the Countess of Rossillion (Peggy Ashcroft), burns with love for "a bright particular star," the countess's son Bertram. A physician's daughter, Helena follows Bertram to the Court of France and cures the mortally ill King (John Franklyn-Robbins...
...from her 70 million readers, but during the past 18 months she has been recycling occasional items from old columns. Landers asserts that the issues raised in the repeated items were still relevant. One such retread concerned a woman who-like a reader in 1967-was faced with that timeless quandary of whether to wash a banana after it had been peeled. "Millie in The Bronx," a fretful housewife whose letter ran in February, was rewhining the kvetch of "Irving's wife" 15 years earlier, namely, what to do with a husband who stopped off every night...
...President's proposal also troubles us for another reason. The Constitution should be as insulated as possible from fleeting political caprices; instead, it should reflect the more timeless values of the nation, not controversial policies like organized school prayer. Yet the President has chosen to ignore this custom, seeing the wide support it enjoys among his partisans...