Word: transcendence
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Party; both the Fur kers and the staunchly antiinist Garment Workers met e to inveigh against the bosses, inst capitalism, and against each r. Even the murals on the walls quare-jawed, muscular proletar- "building the industry of rica" -- call to mind the days tenement-dwellers transcend- the squalidness of their daily while singing "We Shall Not Moved...
...when an assassin tried to kill him in the fall of 1959, Kassem has put his bloodstained tunic on display at his office in the Defense Ministry. Kassem describes his escape from death as an act of providence. As a result, his style of rule now often seems to transcend the merely earthly. He roams his curfewed capital in the early hours of the morning visiting bakeries "to taste the people's bread." He engages in talks with the goatskin-clad poor who live in reed huts on the mud flats of Baghdad's Tigris river. He loses...
Although admitting considerations of humanity must transcend ideological issues and genuine human needs taken care of by the state, Buckley attacked the sentimentalization of economic thought to the point where even New York City and Weld Hall become distressed areas...
...delays implacable Death long enough to accomplish "one single meaningful action." He preserves the lives of Mia and Jof (Mary and Joseph)" and their infant son, who will one day ''perform the one impossible trick" of making a ball stand still in the air, i.e., he will transcend nature. The Seventh Seal marks the great divide in Bergman's life and work. With it death and desperation fall away, life and hope appear...
...control mechanisms), and No. i cybernetic philosopher, solemnly warned that computers and other educated machines may yet outgrow man's control. He rejected the common and cheerful opinion that machines can never have any degree of originality. "It is my thesis," said Wiener, "that machines can and do transcend some of the limitations of their designers...