Ewig

This collection of songs based on Chinese poetry reflects Mahler's tussles with mortality amid nature, ending with the ravishing last bars of "Der Abschied" ( "The Farewell"), which fade into nothing with the repeated word "Ewig" ( "eternal").

Newsvine - Get Smarter Here 2009

I am particularly grateful to Rick Ewig and Carol Bowser at the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming-Laramie for archival support and especially for the two travel grants which funded my post-dissertation research in the Adrian Scott Papers.

Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

They compressed just about all of his simple philosophy: that permanent truths apply, that prayers are answered, that the common man is wise, and that life with a loving Ewig-weibliche is the nearest thing to Heaven.

The Gipper's 'Long Goodbye' 2008

Finally, Edmund Morris muses on the last lines of Goethe's "Faust," invoking Ewig-weibliche, "The Eternal Feminine," who now comforts the ailing president.

The Gipper's 'Long Goodbye' 2008

As Dr. Brinton notes, in this sense women are leading evolution -- Goethe was right: _Das Ewig-weibliche zieht uns hinan_.

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

You may turn with all apparent fervor and pray "das Ewig-Weibliche" to save you.

Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

“Ewig Weibliche” appears constantly in his music and was always in his life.

Beethoven A Character Study Fischer, George A 1905

"Selbst der Styx, der neunfach sie umwindet, Wehrt die Rückkehr Ceres Tochter nicht: Nach dem Apfel greift sie, und es bindet Ewig sie des Orkus Pflicht."

Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women 1905

[Here, Liszt writes a 4-measure music score excerpt of the treble portion of the piece at the point where the words, "das Ewig Weibliche" are sung.] each time, just as I have written it on the accompanying note - sheet.

Letters Liszt, Franz 1893

The "Ewig-Weibliche" favors exaggeration, mysticism, sentimentalism -- all that excites and startles.

Amiel's Journal Henri Fr��d��ric Amiel 1885