Word: transcendency
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Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai's frank and ground-breaking Happy Together was among the first to transcend the sexually conventional in 1997. He undressed every girl's bedroom pin-ups, Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai, and started the first few minutes of his movie with a scene showing exactly what men do to each other in bed. At one stroke, amid much audience perturbation, he unmoored the taboos and let them float flamboyantly close to the mainstream. Asian audiences were intoxicated and its filmmakers' impulses raged against society's machinery, creating a new cinematic landscape...
...great intellectual issues of the day transcend traditional boundaries, of nations and increasingly, of scholarly disciplines. Whether the issues are in the arts and humanities, culture and anthropology, applied sciences such as medicine, environment and ecology or societal concerns of governance and economic development, the problems invariably cut across national boundaries. A U.S.-centered view of the world makes little sense when the U.S. is just 5 percent (and declining) of the world's population, and when the so-called developing world is 85 percent (and rising) of the world's population...
...bring in a professor of comparative literature who's an expert in the humanities," he said, "and he wouldn't know anything about the natural sciences. What makes these people successful is their ability to transcend their own disciplines...
...without a coherent, rational concept of its past? But the real danger in this half-commitment, this milking of science without purchase, is the strange worldview that it allows. Instead of an accurate concept of the human, we get away with a fuzzy, mushy, spiritual concept that attempts to transcend the material and fools us into believing in a fuzzy, mushy, warm blanket of a universe. As the myth of our centrality in the universe spills over into our concept of the universe, massive complacency results. We are not nearly as afraid for our existence as we would...
...welfare reform. In doing so, it has worked with groups such as Planned Parenthood of America, the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL), the Feminist Majority, the National Organization of Women (NOW) Legal Defense and Education Fund and the American Civil Liberties Union. Clearly, these efforts transcend the abortion debate...