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...been so spectacular that by rights it ought to be the beginning of the end of that system everywhere, including, eventually, in the U.S.S.R. President Ronald Reagan proclaimed in a speech at the University of Notre Dame last May: "The West won't contain Communism; it will transcend Communism. It won't bother to denounce it; it will dismiss it as some bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written...
Perhaps the flawed ending results from the false-start-laden beginning. The main characters never transcend a foggy familiarity with the audience. At the start, Thomas sets before us three disjointed vignettes introducing each of the (living) protagonists--Marianna, her sister, their parents and great aunt Theresa--but delineates none of their relationships. As one character says of Marion's lover, the great-Aunt Theresa, "We though she should do something, but she didn't do anything. Nothing at all." In the end one might say the same for Anna Thomas, whose promise as a film-maker remains unfulfilled...
Possible Segue #3;--Better that heroes be ineloquent. What could Dean say to someone as ridiculous as Natalie Wood. The fact that he says nothing, however, saves him immense embarrassment, and somehow he seems to transcend...
Leonard's victory now confirms him as a remarkable champion. He is a strange mix for a fighter, a combination of peerless skills and yearnings to transcend the brutal arena in which he displays them. When he returned from Montreal in 1976, he vowed not to be a professional fighter, preferring to go to college. But the endorsements that he had hoped would support him after his ballyhooed triumph never materialized-white athletes end up on Wheaties boxes, he bitterly asserted, blacks do not. So he took to the ring. For years, he counted his money and waited...
Strong student and Faculty support, expressed in straw votes taken last spring on the issue, should, however, transcend these procedural conflicts. The Faculty Council's near-unanimous support for the plan, for example, shows that "the Faculty is committed to incorporating student opinion into the decision-making process," Dean Fox says. In addition, a College-wide referendum in April revealed that 71 per cent of those voting favored the proposal...