Word: transcender
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...just hope that we can come together as a religious community at Harvard to recognize the gravity of what happened last year, but also to give a word of hope for the future based on the knowledge that there are things that transcend the world that can give us hope,” Mulder said...
...real New Yorkers are superheroes by night, but each seeks to transcend the ordinary by excelling with indomitable spirit. Those rabid Yankee fans, like one of my co-workers at ABC, at once express their individuality and collective identity through their almost-excessive paraphernalia and fanaticism. Even the owner and manager of the local Subway franchise lives a second life. As a day trader, he most likely makes more money and derives more excitement playing the volatile stock market than managing his “sandwich artists...
...sometimes the matter at hand lends itself only to those sorts of questions. Longing is concerned with these essential contradictions of existence, the difference between the witness and the subject, the gulf between two human beings. We spin myths of Mandalay and Shangri-la to transcend, if only in fan-tasy, the conditions that bind us. Even as we come together, find love, dare to dream, we suspect that love, like life itself, will eventually be broken. Kopperud's war-weary, war-loving journalist seeks refuge in the perfect consummation of dreams. He finds mirages...
Francisco Goya is one of those artists who seem both to transcend their time and to epitomize it. Nihil humanum a me alienum puto (I hold nothing alien from me that has to do with human nature), wrote the Roman poet Terence. This motto was lived out to the fullest degree by certain 19th century geniuses. Charles Dickens, with his insatiable interest in character and narrative, was one. In a more abstract way--music being an abstract art anyway--so was Beethoven, in his creation of equivalents for the human passions. And so, in the domain of the visual...
While faculty and students at Harvard can and do transcend boundaries between disciplines, they almost always do so as part of grass-roots movements that prioritize the value of learning from colleagues at all of the schools. Although both University President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven E. Hyman have emphasized, through interfaculty initiatives and public statements, the need for more cross-disciplinary efforts, a larger commitment is needed...