Word: transcendentalism
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G and G actually won the world's heart before they won each other's. When the two Russians earned the gold medal at the 1988 Calgary Games, she was just a 16-year-old sprite and he a mature man of 21 who embodied both power and elegance. They...
French film director Louis Malle died in Beverly Hills of complications of lymphoma. Working on both sides of the Atlantic, Malle feelingly but frankly explored such difficult topics as incest (1971's "Le Souffle En Coeur") and child prostitution ("Pretty Baby", his 1978 American debut). Yet his high-voltage subjects...
"The American narrative a unique, youthful, admirable and open to possibilities," he said. "It works as a transcendent, unifying story."
"Schools need at their core a transcendent ides that uplifts their purpose, shapes their curriculum and helps to create a public mind," Postman said.
"The idea of teaching students how to make a living, not a life, has no transcendent meaning," the conservative author said.