But the Patriarch's gentle admonition — a bizarre note in a chorus of busy scholars and professional connoisseurs — resonates with the dark qualities of the show: concreted sorrow, hard wisdom.
While the borings of the past produced just a few artifacts, the dig, which will end on Friday, generated 250 bags of material that should keep the scholars busy for months, if not years.
While European scholars were busy appropriating the Sanskrit classics as the heritage of Europeans, British linguists Francis Ellis and Alexander Campbell worked in India to theorize that the south Indian languages belong to a different family than the north Indian ones.
Rock and roll has generated more self-serving myths than any other genre, and scholars have been busy dismantling them.
Predictions about Pakistan, a growth industry today but one that has kept scholars and pundits busy for decades, has often produced insightful and unsettling analyses.
So important is the accurate application of Jewish law in this matter that the days before Yom Kippur are a busy time for many rabbinical scholars who answer queries from worried Jews.
ERBIL - While the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has made further advances and occupied the city of Ramadi, scholars in Iraqi Kurdistan Region have been busy developing gender studies structures to enhance gender equality and social justice.
James Joyce once confessed, with puckish pride, that "Finnegans Wake" would "keep the professors busy for centuries," and a similar challenge is issued, to eminent scholars of pop culture, by "Ready Player One".
When the museum invited the top scholars in the field to participate, however, they turned out to be busy.
Michael Black, a boyish scholar with a doctorate in human evolution who manages the museum's research and information systems, is busy digitizing old, barely discernible, sometimes handwritten catalog cards.
I think William Easterly, Jeffrey Sachs and Paul Collier are outstanding scholars with impressive analytical skills and the ability to fight perpetual debates that keep their brains busy.
