Word: timelessness
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...last week an exhibition of paintings by artists west of the Mississippi proved noteworthy chiefly for Missourian Thomas Benton's Susanna and the Elders, a Western version of a sultry incident from the Old Testament.* Composed in forthright Artist Benton's usual robustious arabesques, it gave a timeless answer to critics who have chided "U.S. Scene" painters with an inability to work nudes into their hayseed subject matter...
...sceneryless stage, which for a while scared stage designers as a nudist epidemic would scare dressmakers. It fully justified itself by making Julius Caesar timeless in its meaning, by giving Our Town the universality of Everytown...
...about training the emotions so that children will become well-balanced adults instead of arrested adolescents. The emotional impulses and cravings with which a child is born - love, fear, the need for affection and for the sense of belonging to a group - are bedeviled by many witches. Besides the timeless family jealousies and bickerings that make a child feel insecure, the accelerating tempo of modern life, the danger and excitement that fill even the comic strips, the rootlessness of city dwellers and competition in all things make "anxiety . . . the most prominent mental characteristic" of western civilization. Dr. Prescott found that...
...note that 66 out of 67 American consuls are subscribers, the sole exception being the consul of San Marino. I am a bit vague as to the location of San Marino; I have even less idea as to the identity of the consul. ... It does seem, however, that his TIMEless existence is indeed regrettable. . . . Accordingly I am enclosing my check for five dollars for which please send him TIME each week for one year...
...TIME subscription has been entered for TIMEless Consul Joseph E. Haven, San Marino, San Marino. For the information of generous Reader O'Brien, Joseph Haven is consul to the world's smallest republic (32 sq. mi.), near Rimini in Northern Italy, overlooking the Adriatic. Its chief revenue is postage stamps...