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...club hopes to transcend its image of beingpurely social...
...practice -- and this is the great lesson that her fiction has to teach -- Morrison does just the reverse. White authors are seldom praised for "transcending" the whiteness of their characters, and Morrison has demanded, through the undeniable power of her works, to be judged by the same standards. She has insisted upon the particular racial identities of her fictional people -- black women and men under stresses peculiar to them and their station in the U.S. -- because she knows a truth about literature that seems in danger of passing from civilized memory. The best imaginative writing is composed of specifics rather...
...debate, held at The Crimson, revolved around issues of accessibility, organization and the ability of the candidates to transcend their roles in previous councils...
...encyclical which will be formally issued tomorrow, is a reaction to what the Pope writes is "an overall and systematic calling into question of traditional moral doctrine." According to The New York Times, which obtained an official English translation of the edict, the document details "fundamental moral principles" which "transcend all eras and cultures...
...while it might not be right to call God exclusively "he," it is equally mistaken to regard God as "she." This makes God into a being. She notes, however, that much of the gender politics of God may come from the inflexibility of English. Other languages allow God to transcend sex. In Arabic, for example, the supreme name for God, al-Lah, is masculine, but his other names, "the Compassionate" (al- Rahmat) and "the Merciful" (al-Rahim), are feminine...