dying tradition

Originally, this was intended to keep alive a dying tradition.

"I want her to come here and perform and to teach a dying tradition."

Throughout the song Rogers talks of the dying traditions associated within those small communities.

The graveyard-shift steak special is another dying tradition.

However, since the installment of the current headmaster, the administration has been less lenient and the filibuster seems to be a dying tradition.

Joanne O'Connor goes to Kyoto to experience a dying tradition.

"Military courtesy is a dying tradition."

Its written language is in Jawi script and is fast becoming a dying tradition.

But Mr. Bilger's book is not a catalogue of dying traditions.

A Dying Tradition Money is also contributing to the ruin of hunting traditions, the old-timers say.

"It is a dying tradition," said Temsiri Punyasingh, a lecturer on cultural affairs.

This was a life style that had existed for hundreds of years, but by the time I moved to Ireland it was already a dying tradition."

The Japanese are fascinated by foreigners making a spectacle of themselves in this way - the natural heirs to the dying tradition of performing street monkeys.

Director Park Young-soo added that, "I wanted to revive the significance of our dying traditions.

These ritual functions restricted to distinct sibs, reflect a dying tradition, and survive now mainly as a matter of ideology.

This is however a dying tradition as there is now only one producer of clay cuckoos, Sofia Nilsson.

If all the dying traditions are valuable, does that also mean all the valuable traditions are dying?

And Mahler was surely conscious, in his symphonies and songs, that he was speaking for and through a dying tradition.

Floating Chinese Musicians is a sound installation and media archive of 30 folk musicians who are preserving a dying tradition while surviving on China's periphery.

Steele-1983 was partly a monument to what its authors thought was a dying tradition; no one involved realized at the time just how wide its influence was to be.

Clothing/Fashion: Andhra Pradesh is home to some of the finest historical cloth making/fashion and dying traditions of the world.

On this recent autumn evening, a dozen old friends had gathered to hear Mr. Shukur, 84, one of Iraq's greatest musicians and the standard-bearer of a dying tradition.

LEAD: Henry Purcell wrote only one theater piece we would describe as opera, but his interest in the musical stage kept alive the dying tradition of the masque.

To the street-smart Yolanda (acted and danced with jumpy grace, fierce assertiveness and not without vulnerability by Carmen Ruby Floyd), hats are a dying tradition.

If Mahler simultaneously mocked and mourned the dying traditions of fin-de-siecle Vienna, Mr. Liebermann also yearns for the irretrievable.