Galdós's enduring fame rests, however, on what have come to be known as the Novelas españolas contemporáneas ("Contemporary Spanish Novels"), especially his portrayals of Madrid's bureaucracy and its middle class and pueblo (working class).
But his enduring fame rested on his exploits as the rider on John D. Hertz's Count Fleet, who in 1943 won the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes.
During the first three years of independence, Patel was deputy prime minister, minister of home affairs, minister of information, and minister of states; above all, his enduring fame rests on his achievement of the peaceful integration of the princely Indian states into the Indian Union and the political unification of India.
But his serious, enduring reputation rests on the subtler, more modest pictures - horror flicks, westerns, thrillers, melodramas, sci-fi - he made in the 1940s and 1950s, and on his role as editor on Welles's Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons.
His enduring scientific reputation rests mainly on his accomplishments as a geologist.
But his work rarely proved commercially viable, and he never achieved the popular acclaim or enduring admiration of the rest of his cohort.
And yet Mr. Gazzara's enduring reputation may well rest on his film work, specifically the movies he made with Mr. Cassavetes, the actor and director revered by cinephiles for his risk-taking independent projects and a directorial style that encouraged spontaneity.
No doubt, that relationship rests on enduring foundations, including broad American public sympathy for a besieged democracy, a mutual strategic interest in resisting Arab extremism and a sense of moral duty to preserve the Jewish people after the Holocaust.
By contrast, the Britons, whose work has featured in Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events and Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can, tells the story of two undertakers as they struggle to transport the body of an old lady to her final resting place, enduring "bumps and scrapes" en route that threaten – but never quite manage – to undermine the dignity of the recently passed.
Time is the measure or concomitant of being, lasting and transient, enduring and in movement or rest.
