Word: transcended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...presidency in 1992 as a "New Democrat," stressing responsibility as well as rights. What set him apart form Democrats such as Michael Dukakis, Walter Mondale and Jimmy Carter had less to do with his stand on particular issues than with his ability, at least at moments, to transcend the terms of the conventional politics. Dukakis learned what happens to a Democratic nominee who runs with a Liberal label. When he told the 1988 convention that the election would be about "competence," not "ideology," Republicans pounced. Clearly, Clinton, too, thought that his liberalism was a handicap and hence he tried...
...Nobel Prize for literature merely confirmed what her readers and admirers had known for more than two decades: Toni Morrison is a major American writer. But because she is an African-American woman, her importance to and impact on her times transcend the literary. Her example, both in her powerful novels and in her strong, imposing personality, has inspired a generation of black artists and produced seismic effects on publishing...
...government won't let us play.' I thought it was very nice for him to say, 'Here is politics. We have to adhere to that. They're sponsoring this tournament for us.' But they were able to look at [us] as human beings instead of political subjects. It helped transcend the limiting boundaries of politics...
...other hand," Allen says, "education is highly valued in the American Dream, and education can transcend inner-city violence, guns, substance abuse and single-parent families...
...women in general and the progress they have made, or have failed to make thus far. The truth is that this system of female treatment would be just as appalling if we Harvard women were the sole patrons. We are not some upper class of women who should transcend male domination any more than should girls of other schools. The impropriety of the final clubs therefore is an affront to all women...