Word: timelessness
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...bicycle wheels. To critics who note that his drawings for the new book-done over the last 22 years-have a remarkable sameness in style, Braque explains simply: "Hesiod's gods have been fixed in my mind ever since I read the book. Hesiod's poetry is timeless...
...issue of the play is a timeless one: country virtue vs. city materialism. A dignified but homespun Vermont woman suddenly gains as a living companion on her farm a plump, middle aged woman from Dedbam, Mass., who speaks through her nose and adores TV. The latter can hardly appreciate an old woman who reminisces about the boarded-up southwest corner of her house, just because it was once the parlor of her family. A conflict of values is inevitable...
...Harvard has emerged from this trial stronger in purpose, stronger in confidence and stronger in her devotion to the freedom she has inherited, it is in large part to the qualities of determination and fundamental moral courage exhibited by Charles Coolidge and above all to his patient insistence upon timeless standards of uprightness and human decency that her thanks...
...sold-out concert at Chicago's Civic Opera House, celebrating the famed choir's soth anniversary, such a thing as a flat tone was unthinkable. The program, which ranged from Palestrina to Stravinsky, produced a fortissimo reaction from the music critics. "Cool, thin, silver tone . . . timeless patina," said the Tribune. Said Paulist O'Malley: "It was one of the finest concerts I've ever conducted...
...tradition, a letter from Washington, a bronze cast of Whitman's hand, and a book entitled, Life of a Highwayman, bound in his own skin. The effect of this room, with its slow ticking Grandfather's clock and polished center table, mirrors the feeling of the whole Atheneum--a timeless, stately place in which to work...