Word: transcender
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...mention the insistent wails of worried host Mexico, which has put millions of dollars into preparations--Brundage agreed last week to call a special meeting of the IOC to discuss the issue. It was a rare compromise on the part of this man who once said, "Sports transcend politics. It is an international phenomenon like science or music...
...political anachronism, preaching the same blend of straight talk and good-will that was his banner headline as a youth. But if his message still comes over loud and clear, it is because he has stayed in tune with the youth of today, and because his wisdom and eloquence transcend the tradewinds of political fortune...
...founder of the Spiritual Regeneration Movement, who recently acquired a standing-room audience on a U.S. speaking tour. The Maharishi, 56, has attracted his guests by offering something like instant nirvana; by meditating for just an hour or so a day according to his methods, he says, anyone may transcend "the gross state of thought" to find deeper wisdom. What is more, the Maharishi offers to bring the blessings of wisdom to the faithful "without their having to renounce their way of life"-a comfortable tenet rarely offered by holy men or prophets...
...very difficult thing to give an idea in words of Redding's genius. The values with which he dealt were not so much musical as human and emotional. It's a little misleading to think of him as merely a singer. What he attempted to do was to transcend the artifice of the song. Most singers are more or less content with the pleasantness of the artifice, and exploit it. An actor must never seem to be just a guy saying some lines he has memorized. When that happens, the result is ludicrous and the profession seems puerile...
...problem, however, is the question of what role a University should play in an increasingly diverse society with institutions requiring finely honed academic expertise for their maintenance and growth. This is an issue for philosophers, politicians, technocrats, and hippies. It is also an issue with ramifications that transcend the exacerbated feelings of the 300 students who posed it in Mallinckrodt Hall two weeks...