Agelessness
9. Agelessness (See also Immortality.)
- Endymion man kept immortally youthful through eternal sleep. [Gk. Myth.: Howe, 91; Br. Lit.: “Endymion” in Harvey, 271]
- Gray, Dorian artist Basil Hallward’s “ideal of youth” remains young as his portrait ages. [Br. Lit.: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Magill I, 746–748]
- Grecian urn lovers depicted on it will be forever young. [Br. Poetry: Keats “Ode on a Grecian Urn”]
- Little Orphan Annie teenage heroine who has not aged since strip started (1938). [Comics: “Little Orphan Annie” in Horn, 459]
Aggressiveness (See CONQUEST.)
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