Word: transcend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idyllic to think that Harvard would ever offer comprehensive course offerings on the West. But Harvard offers courses in the history of the South, colonial history, and oceanic history. While Western history may not be considered cosmopolitan in academic circles, the University should transcend its usual provincialism and provide at least one course in the history of the Western Movement...
...those who differed with him. But he shows a sense of humor even about war's more annoying cufuffles, i.e., flaps. And his reflections are diverting, whether he praises female nurses over male, defines the qualities of a good commander (including "an inner conviction which at times will transcend reason"), or sets down what a nation needs to survive the cufuffles of history ("a religion and an educated elite...
...fragility about it. A lady sits in a doorway of Vermeer's "Street in Delft," thinking of the quiet and the secure things she knows about her faded old home. The poem is the woman talking, and yet it is not the woman talking because her thought seems to transcend her feeling. Be sure to hunt up the print in the library if you like the poem...
...museum without walls." The old categorical approach is usually used, however, if not out of sheer inertia, at least for convenience's sake. For the current exhibition at Busch-Reisinger, however, the old method is most appropriate, for there are precious few canvases in the whole lot which transcend their particular philosophy, genre or gestalt...
...writing, too, has a peculiarly modern urgency. Yet the spirit of Blake's pictures is far indeed from modern art. He worshiped Raphael, pored over gothic sculpture and illuminations, spent seven years as an apprentice engraver, and recommended endless copying of nature as the only means to transcend it. "The bad artist seems to copy a great deal," he wrote. "The good one really does." Instead of the common modern view that painting ought to be an end in itself, he considered art merely a means of showing "truth." And by "truth" Blake meant his own spiritual insights...