Word: timelessness
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LIKE HER earlier novels, Southern Discomfort is redolent of feminism. Most major characters are women, several of whom exhibit great strength and independence, although none are idealized. This offers acute timeless insights into the limits and opportunities available to women bound by traditional societies, revealing hidden heroism and behind-the-scenes sisterhood. Several of the men are appealing, but Brown does not focus on them. A few become three-dimensional and believable, such as Hercules father, sunk into passive resignation because of a harsh life. Brown avoids flat, stock figures, but her male characters are generally not as fully fleshed...
...tone Rosi struck before, in the notable Christ Stopped at Eboli two years ago, which also contrasted the timeless virtues of peasant life with the murderous meaninglessness of modern intellectual and ideological bustle. He was not then, and he is not now, soft-headed in his appreciation of the simple life. Nor is he ever less than humane and fair-minded in presenting the torments of the bedeviled worldly. Indeed, he strikes one as being among the world's most scrupulous directors, a man whose instinct for the play of light and the unobtrusively correct camera...
...much legislation that could deny men real rights. And Archibald Cox, Loeb University Professor, takes issue with Ely's reading of history. To Cox, Ely's otherwise excellent work ignored the Constitution's natural rights heritage..one that should allow judges to nullify legislation that clashes with America's timeless values--no matter how pure the process that brought about the legislation...
Calling Fitzgerald "timeless," theatricals vice president James D. Goldstein '82 said this year's winner of the club's 31st Woman of the Year award is in fact "a woman of every year...
...kept our thoughts on him, and which keeps our thoughts on him still. He was there, in the essential, classic circumstance. Man in nature. The man in the water. For its part, nature cared nothing about the five passengers. Our man, on the other hand, cared totally. So the timeless battle commenced in the Potomac. For as long as that man could last, they went at each other, nature and man; the one making no distinctions of good and evil, acting on no principles, offering no lifelines; the other acting wholly on distinctions, principles and, one supposes, on faith...