Word: transcender
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...pontification. Although James ultimately rejects Harry's offer to "take him away from all this," when James takes to the bottle again, no one is certain that he has made the right choice. Sibbard's play works because of not in spite of--the frayed ends; they let it transcend the level of soap opera, and leave the audience feeling appropriately unsettled and introspective...
...challenge facing Japanese music, then, is to deepen the understanding of an art they now share with the West. Performers, having proved themselves the equal of any technically, must now transcend their sensei and find their own, distinctly Japanese voices. -By Michael Walsh
...parties concerned have found the Tersk auction to be a stable, and profitable, island of amity amid the shifting tides of East-West trade. Equine dealings between the U.S. and the Soviets are even beginning to transcend buying and selling. A new concern called Fidelis International has struck a deal to market Soviet horses and stud services in the U.S. and Canada. Says a Soviet trade official with the terseness of a Yankee horse trader: "This is a good agreement...
...This year showed occasionally that there were alternative to such a communications gap, as when the College's new Undergraduate Council, the first funded student government in Harvard's history, convinced College officials that they had acted too hastily in curtailing summer storage privileges. But whenever issues began to transcend the purely practical, positions polarized as swiftly as ever. And the reason--the disappointing realization which eventually comes to any student urging the University to examine its own conscience--was Harvard's nature as a completely pragmatic institution...
...theory of time presented in the play belongs to philosopher J. W. Dunne who, according to Priestly, oposits that each person is "a series of observers in a corresponding series of times." Ordinarily, people can only perceive the present, through the eyes of their mortal identity. But occasionally humans transcend this limitation. Thus when we see the future in dreams, we are looking through the eyes of an observer in some future time. Similarly, within the play, one of the characters is treated to two distinct temporal visions of her life. Act II, which takes place nearly 20 years after...