Word: surmountable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there are additional factors. Isabel G. MacCaffery, chairman of History and Lit, said last week that the major she oversees was formed as a way to surmount departmental boundaries, so that a limited number of students could study the interaction of history and literature in a particular country or time period...
...single literary convention, the official folk hero of latter-day Southern fiction: epic hunter, epic drinker, epic lecher, with the classic weakness for a maddening black girl down among the cabins. Humphrey is accomplished at what he does and is moved by his own myth. But he cannot surmount the clich...
...production builds steadily, reaching competence towards the end of the first act and threatening to surmount it for the rest of the evening. Nabel and Eichkern both sing well, and though his characterization isn't terribly heroic, her threat to shoot everybody on stage at the end (oh, dear!) is surprisingly solid. Bob Berger's choreography for the dream sequence, and Lindsay Davis's costumes for it -- a set of immaculate white robes for the solemn lookers-on, spotless black for the duellers -- is particularly effective...
...proved less certain than advertised, or because they have seemed to sacrifice the whole man to one of his parts. Optimism had bred a false enthusiasm that this method or that system was somehow the answer. Now some of the growing skepticism questions whether any system can ever fully surmount the recalcitrance and perversity...
...tentative settlement between Washington and Hanoi comes unstuck -and it could-the market would get a nasty shock. It also remains to be seen whether investors can surmount the roadblock psychology that in the past has often caused them to start selling shares whenever the Dow Jones average gets close to 1000, a mark above which it has never closed. That attitude smacks more of mysticism than analysis; stock prices would be very little higher in relation to business profits and the strength of the economy at 1000 on the Dow than they are at 984. For what...