Word: timelessness
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Some of his fantasies, like The Land of Cockaigne, a kind of 16th Century Big Rock Candy Mountain, were as timeless as meat & potatoes. The inscription which was printed beneath that engraving merely hinted at the edible delights spread out in the picture. It read: "All ye who are lazy and gluttonous, be ye peasant, soldier or scholar, get to the land of Cockaigne and taste there all sorts of things without any labor. The fences are sausages, the houses covered with cakes; capons and chickens fly around ready-roasted...
Ushered by Social Service Committee members from Phillips Brooks House, the fledgling cinema fans will gaze at such timeless epics as "The Immigrant" and "Burlesque on Carmen...
...character is a retired judge who is writing a book about Athens during its best days. A saintly Mr. Chips wrestling with the devil instead of the Lower Form, he prays nightly for help in his work ("God, make me fit to write"), seeks, in his historical research, a "timeless common humanity" to unite Greek ideals with the wearier 20th Century. What he finds, at first, is a modern tempter with a fat bankroll and a skinny conscience, who tries to bribe him away from his book...
...booklet is a collection of simplified essays on a variety of subjects, some as topical as How to Mix Pablum, some as timeless as What to Do When Frozen ("Get to the doctor . . . as soon as you can"). Printed in English and in Eskimo syllables (a system of sound-writing which looks something like shorthand), it has helpful hints on how to collect family allowances from the Government, and it tells how to avoid hunger ("aim carefully when you shoot"). But most of The Book of Wisdom is concerned with helping the Eskimo to keep healthy and clean. Excerpts...
TIME Magazine [April 28] came with the same mail, and I looked through it mechanically without much understanding. But suddenly I stopped: I saw my father and my mother ... in Koerner's My Parents, and I read of "a painting which spoke the timeless reproach of the dead, of those who would never again turn to face their persecutors...