Word: transcendentalize
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THE LEADING critic of contemporary liberal education, Allan Bloom, has railed against such historicism. He decries the notion that man's being is essentially historical, and his work never transcendent. It will not please him that great books will be taught by the historians of Robinson Hall.
Faced with the tedium of me-too panel discussions, candidates have created their own exhibition season. No longer does a contender have to wait to be nominated to experience the joys of hurling invective face-to-face at an opponent from the other party. Democrat Bruce Babbitt and Republican Pete...
Despite questions about its feasibility, advocates argue that a universal national-service program has transcendent benefits for the nation as a whole. "The real advantage of national service is not to the young," says Moskos. "The fundamental benefit is to society itself in reinstating its sense of comity, community and...
PAUL SIMON: GRACELAND (Warner Bros.). Transcendent spirit under African skies.
The machine, with its stripped and logical forms, its imagery of power, change and fast communication, would make concrete what Walt Whitman had dreamed of: "The expression of the American poet is to be transcendent and new." Farewell to Henry Adams' Virgin, to the Renaissance and Gothic nostalgia that had...