Word: transcender
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...appears that Goldberg's more important task is to convince the representatives of other nations in New York that American aims in Vietnam transcend the old principle that Communism must be repelled wherever it threatens. Goldberg also must try to persuade non-aligned nations as well as America's allies that the President actually is concerned about their carping on the war. This is a pretty difficult chore, but why else would a Supreme Court Justice step down to the U.N. post unless it was a matter of the highest national urgency--and legerdemain...
Some elements in Sklar's play transcend the form. His composite town of Leucadia presents a number of convincing Southern characters including a chilling deputy sheriff (perfectly portrayed by Roger W. Loomis) and a hopelessly lost, despicable belle (also well acted, by Susan Bertram...
Renaissance Man. Boyish enthusiasm sits poorly on a professor, but an urgency and eagerness that transcend enthusiasm can be gripping. At the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, English Professor Osborne Bennett ("O.B.") Hardison Jr., 37, wears scuffed shoes, drooping socks and chalk-streaked jacket, goes everywhere accompanied by a kindly dog named Poppo, and makes literature an urgent affair. O.B. revels in Joyce, turns Kant dramatic, convulses his class by acting out John Donne's poem The Flea. Hummingly in tune with the student wave length, he translates the oracle's prediction in Arcadia ("An uncouth love which...
...rehearsal, but her performance certainly doesn't show it. Her monologues and John Hoffman's as Dr. Thomas contain all the best moments in the play. As Martin and Lisa, David Gordon and Maeve Kinkead manage to be funny without sacrificing character and vice versa, although neither can quite transcend a scene in which they manifest their romantic bliss into song...
Some of the performances, however, nearly transcend their material. Jack Cassidy as the gossip columnist Max Mencken is unbelievably slick and professional. Michael O'Sullivan hams to a proper excess as a ten-time Nobel Prize loser who takes revenge on the world by trying to destroy its culture-hero, Superman. Bob Holiday's deadpan makes him perfect for the title role...