Word: transcender
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...Emancipation Proclamation, or that the "I Have a Dream" speech somehow soothed three centuries of racial strife. Neither can we hold sons and daughters accountable for the sins of their mothers and fathers. We must embrace history. We must sit with our nation's sins, discuss them, debate them, transcend them. And then we must move forward together in realizing the great gifts of humanity that lay within...
...actors attempt--sometimes successfully--to overcome Coward's theatrical missteps. The effortless performance of Mara Clark as Madam Arcati is the highlight of this show. She alone is able to transcend the weighty constraints of her character and convince the audience of her authenticity...
Just as importantly, ACT '97 seeks to transcend traditional ethnic and racial boundaries so as to address collectively and in an informed way problems which affect all historically disenfranchised groups...
...absurd. I respect the right of individuals to perceive themselves however they please but do not believe that such self-perceptions need form the basis for a minority group that must be explicitly protected. By urging the University to adopt a legal policy towards individuals who wish to transcend their physical characteristics in forming identity, the UC is leading the way into both intellectually and practically convuluted territory. The Council would spend its time more effectively addressing issues such as section sizes and core reform...
...from the brisk exuberance of the first. Roosevelt tried to pack the Supreme Court, with humiliating results. The Great Depression ground on. Abroad, the international order began to disintegrate. America split bitterly over what, if anything, to do about it. All of this set the stage for F.D.R. to transcend his second term's malaise by breaking through precedent to a third term and, as history would have it, moving the drama of his presidency to a larger theater: world...