Word: transcended
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...death, he tells us in the most understated yet poignant manner, Luz “crashed into a gas station. The explosion was considerable.”But that literary urge cannot be kept out of the book. Maybe Claudia is both right and wrong: Literature cannot transcend politics, but politics cannot escape literature. It’s a truth that Bolaño lived when he led an outlaw band of avant-garde poets called the “infrarealists,” and it’s a truth that he writes into his book. One character, hoping...
...reality: it is difficult to keep the awkwardness of language’s inherent inadequacy from permeating his narration. As Millhauser’s characters are consumed by a desire to break beyond the realm of perception imposed upon them by their environment, so does their creator strive to transcend the limitations of language only to remain shackled by his medium.—Staff Writer Anna I. Polonyi can be reached at apolonyi@fas.harvard.edu...
...UC’s personal interest and will no longer be able to legitimately claim that it represents the wishes of the student body. The resolution, which is intended to protect the UC’s interests, illustrates the UC’s main failure: its inability to transcend its own interests as a student group to become a proper student government. Ideally, a student government should not have any interests of its own. Representatives to the UC are elected not to further promote or protect the institutional interests of the UC but rather to represent the interests...
...century. Demonstrators have historically wanted subaltern groups to speak for themselves, but they have also wanted them to have a chance to simply speak. Now that our national politics have empowered those with a traditionally marginalized race and gender, we should foster a political climate in which they can transcend those particularities and debate instead about the urgent concerns of our nation’s governance...
...Tuesday night speech aimed at the masses rather than the oligarchs, Obama made a concerted effort to transcend race - the dominant subject between the campaigns the last three weeks - and Clinton, too. Trying out a new slogan, Obama said Super Tuesday proved, "this time can be different." "What began as a whisper has now swelled to a chorus that cannot be ignored; that will not be deterred; that will ring out across this land as a hymn that will heal this nation, repair this world, and make this time different than all the rest." At least in his prose, Obama...