Word: transcender
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ANTHONY NEWLEY and Leslie Bricusse must have thought themselves quite ambitious. They wanted to create a clever, innovative show that would transcend the limitations of conventional musical comedy--a show that would say something. Instead, they made The Roar of the Greasepaint--The Smell of the Crowd in which the British class struggle is simplified, set to music, and peppered with punny lines and broad gags. A silly little show, it's like dramatizing a dissertation on social democracy by Mickey Mouse...
...admissions officers selecting each freshman class--diversity and the affirmative action goal of opening Harvard to members of groups that have been excluded in the past. Yet Klitgaard complains in his report that he could find no statistical proof of the value of diversity. That is because some issues transcend statistics. No study should question the University's moral commitment to affirmative action...
...That in prayer, in attitudes, we foster a new mood of healing and forgiveness so that we transcend not only our differences but even our grievances...
...intellectual--as a guardian of learning, as expert, and as a critic or ideologue. If another category, the intellectual as activist, fits his model, Bell makes no attempt to make it readily apparent. Bell's "intellectuals" are the professors and the men of letters, the men who can conveniently transcend the fray. There is no room for a Michael Harrington, a Herbert Marcuse, or a C. Wright Mills in Bell's scheme. Indeed, much of The Winding Passage attempts to discredit these idealists--and succeeds. In method, Bell is a tantalizing combination of Muhammad Ali and Roberto Duran; he taunts...
...trait that seems to transcend the change of government is antipathy for the Soviet Union. As Bing says, "All hate the Russians. All Chinese hate the Russians. It has a long origin in history...