Word: surpass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both PAX and SDS hope to equal or surpass the estimated 10,000 to 25,000 turnout at last April's demonstration in Washington...
...know that what I write will never be artistically consummate, because I intentionally struggle to surpass the boundaries of art and thus harmony, the essence of beauty, is distorted... I wanted to be delivered from my own inner darkness and to turn it into light, from the terrible bellowing ancestors in me and to turn them into human beings. That was why I invoked great figures who had successfully undergone the most elevated and difficult of ordeals: I wanted to gain courage by seeing the human soul's ability to triumph over everything...
...fear of death." Another flash reveals the writer in the throes of creation, dipping his pen into his own blood: "Writing may have been a game in other ages. Today it is a grave duty, to proclaim a state of mobilization, to urge men to do their utmost to surpass the beast...
...Your story renewed my admiration and appreciation for this artist, who can paint what many of us can only dream. His universal figures and impressions surpass the barriers of language and age. (MRS.) ANN KUPERBERG Elizabeth...
...huge number of applications--expected by the deadline to surpass last year's total of 2700 by 400--is making early decisions on candidates increasingly difficult, Toepfer explained. "We are haunted by the problem of filling too many places early in the year and then having to reject more-qualified people merely because of late application," he said...