Word: transcendency
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...half-hour address, Hesburgh advocated a "world citizenship" as a means "to transcend nationalistic chauvinism." What is needed, Hesburgh said, is a "Declaration of Interdependence" to affirm the unity, equality, and dignity of humankind...
...always this momentum going," says Jay Friedman, principal trombonist of the Chicago. "The architecture of a piece of music always comes across. Even in very slow passages you're never standing still. I think it's because something metaphysical happens. The music he makes seems to transcend what he does physically...
IHAD JUST diligently conjectured that Red Cross was about how one's imagination can transcend pain if other people are left well out of it when Offending the Audience came on. It proceeded to put to the torch all such thought patterns, and with a Spanish Inquisitor's lack of mercy. This "play" by Peter Handke politely refuses to succumb to comment, criticism or description: I must have composed ten brave little reviews in my head during the production, only to feel each one neatly self-destruct as the play went on. Offending the Audience tears down theatrical illusions...
...between states and thus slow down the pace of European integration. But many scholars argue plausibly that ethnic differences do not so much foreclose the future as point the way to it. Swiss Philosopher Denis de Rougement looks for a gradual emergence of new "communities of mutual interests" that transcend established frontiers. One such community might be the region bounded by Lyons and Grenoble in France and Geneva and Lausanne in Switzerland-four cities already united by proximity, language (French) and common commercial interests. Says De Rougement: "Europeans are discovering that this is what brings them together, not borders...
...Crimson stands today as healthy as at any time in its history. This should come as no surprise, for the editors of this newspaper will never let it die. For a century, editors of The Crimson have sustained a firm belief in its institutional value; and nothing could transcend the singlemost important facet of The Crimson--its people...