Word: timelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tells of a spiritual quest, drawing on the legend of a 7th century monk who journeyed to India to bring Buddhist scriptures back to China. A trio of supernatural familiars attend him: a monkey, a pig and a river spirit. They are archetypal figures, as timeless as the Nereids who rescued Jason and the Argonauts, or the three sidekicks who accompanied Judy Garland into...
...German short, "Passage," (the above, of course, being an American creation) moves poetically through an alternately icy, snowy and watery landscape. Two black figures wordlessly negotiate the terrian with inky fluidity and cryptic relatedness. Their quest, timeless in its way as the dirdy birdy's endless mooning, communicates itself perfectly through the spare ink and paper rendtion...
After Tuesday's 12-3 embarrassment by Boston College in the Beanpot, the Harvard baseball team can do little more than utter that timeless cry of baseball fans and players alike: "Wait' till next year...
Listening to this timeless music, you can almost believe that a song could save the world. It's tempting to offer each Chieftain the toast from Mo Ghile Mear--"So wish him strength and length of days"--but these old boyos already have both...
...Homer tells us that the child gods are timeless and unchanging," writes Solomon in his thesis-setting prologue, "The Myth of the Eternal Child." "In the course of time, however, Mozart's physical appearance began to diverge from the world's image of him. It was as though the grown Mozart was quite a different person, one descended from but not identical with a legendary child Mozart. The maturing historical Mozart became the porcelain-child Mozart's double, and the divine child survived his own death." Unable to escape the image that had charmed the courts of Europe when...