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Tomorrow, King will likely he defeated by City Councilor Raymond L. Flynn, who has managed to surmount many questions about his politics and ideology without really answering them...
...roots of family distress and false nostalgia. Taeko Tomioka, 47, is a poet turned novelist, celebrated for her unflinching analyses of social despair. For these women, says Anthologist Yukiko Tanaka, "writing is the antithesis of the selfless submission prescribed by Japanese culture. Women writers have needed great courage to surmount the many obstacles to their attempts at such self-assertion...
...dwelling on his guests' everyday suffering, instead of their ability to sublimate it into performance, Cottle sometimes misses what makes them special. Still, there are times when they surmount his failures. Milton Berle was a study in self-pity while describing the anguish of fathering an illegitimate son, but displayed his comic mastery when he narrated a story of his attempted suicide. Perched at the window, Berle was about to leap. He was discovered by his secretary, who begged him not to jump and said, "Let's order some turkey." Berle looked away, inconsolable, then slowly turned...
Unable to surmount long-held biases in the workplace, blacks feel that they have been equally cut off from the social circles that revolve around every company. Even those who would like to fraternize with fellow workers away from the office complain that they are seldom included. That hurts their day-to-day relations with peers and subordinates, and keeps them out of the old-boy network so useful to the careers of whites...
...year tenure as KGB chief. Though he resigned his police post in May, it was argued both in the West and in the Soviet Union that his image was too tarnished for him to represent his country at home or abroad. A more important impediment Andropov had to surmount was the widespread fear of the KGB among Soviet officials who vividly remember the purges of party and government bureaucrats by Stalin's secret-police chiefs. Working for Andropov, however, was his record of efficiently crushing religious, intellectual and national dissent; he once dismissed the dissident movement as "a skillful propaganda...