Word: transcender
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...human endeavors, don't show the human struggle or achievement in survival; they point out the dignity of objects, whether mechanical or human, their capacity to deal with respective endowments. The few times he speaks beyond these points are when he deals with families or groups in society that transcend this individual impotence. "The Family" (Luzzara, Italy 1953) evokes complicated reality and emotions of deSica's film. The Bicycle Thief, as the barefobted man on the right with eyes downcast leans against his bicycle and the stone wall behind him. The elements of the picture are related more than abstractly...
MINOR WHITE examines the spiritual in photography by selecting works of 69 photographers for a show he has conceived on Octave of Prayer (on exhibit at the MIT Hayden Gallery until November 26). Where Strand has stressed the object, Minor White picks works that transcend the physical nature of the object. "Photography allows them (photographers) a consciousness of things, places and people, a union with certain visual, auditory and sensory events in the world. A union growing out of rapport or resonance makes the experience an event for them...
...grow to be so different, that eventually the richness of the play seems to lie in these border areas. It becomes concerned with the human condition, in a broader context, which is where in some ways the Loeb's production breaks down. Too often the minor asides fail to transcend their immediate surroundings. Their impact develops the situation's comedy, but it does no more than that. Recognizing the more convoluted and profound complications of a comedy without sacrificing its comic aspects, is not the task that George Hamlin sets for himself. But at least he does not sacrifice...
...well as threatening PHB's support within the University. The sophistication of the House's understanding of its problems and the intensity of its overall commitment belie the caricature, but only a clearer assessment of the limitations and potential House programs can give Harvard and PBH the confidence to transcend such allegations...
...Juan, as he speaks from Castaneda's account, the getting of knowledge is more lonely; the sorcerer who "sees"-in other words, who can transcend the conventional descriptions of the world shutting off his unconscious flow of interpretations-inhabits a frightening place, full of omens and nameless entities, some hostile, others benevolent. His posture, Don Juan insists, must be that of "a warrior"-agile, perfectly disciplined, capable of acting with "controlled abandon." In the Yaqui sorcerer's system, drugs help in approaching this state by breaking the crust of ordinary perception and revealing the baffling dimensions of experience...