Word: surmountable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Largely unknown, he has enjoyed the esteem of his peers. Lawrence Durrell praised him as a major force; Auden ascribed Cavafy's power to surmount translation to "a tone of voice," the revelation of "a person with a unique perspective on the world." That perspective is keenly evoked in a new translation by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. And as a bonus, the first English biography of Cavafy has just been published. In it Robert Liddell scrupulously assembles and sifts the frugal details of the poet's life...
...second day is the Speed, Endurance and Cross Country event. It is defined to show "that the horse and rider could cross any terrain and surmount any obstacle to carry a message or scout a position." And while this cross-country steeplechase event is the most heavily weighted aspect of the competition, it is the final day's stadium jumping that draws the crowds...
...warmth of their welcome will certainly reassure Vietnamese doctors about their new homeland. But the refugees must still surmount some major obstacles before they can practice their profession. Like other foreign-trained physicians-who now constitute more than one-fifth of the 300,000 doctors practicing in the U.S.-the Vietnamese must pass the stiff requirements of the Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG), which tests both their command of English and knowledge of clinical medicine. Last winter only 7,000 of the 19,000 foreign doctors who took the exams managed to pass. Those...
Family Spirit. The company has managed to surmount the bad publicity and burden of the lawsuits. "We have been wounded, but it is not fatal," insists Vice President John Verstraete...
...third B.U. score of the first period, however, at 18 seconds left in the stanza, propelled the Terriers to a lead too great for the Crimson to surmount...