Word: transcender
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...style majesty and grandeur are now elements of many Vegas shows. Some, especially Cirque du Soleil's $33 million Mystere at Treasure Island, have the otherworldly vision to transcend this outsize format. And some, like EFX--a $67 million investment, including $27 million to equip its theater with 3-D movie projection, a "fog wall" of steam and liquid nitrogen and hot-wired rumble seats--are content to give visitors a hell of a high-tech ride...
Like Lerner and West, the representatives believed that the Black-Jewish alliance of the 60's can transcend time and political shifts. In the 60's, it was the Blacks who were balking (and rightly so) about civil rights to a government that was not particularly concerned. But over the last 30 years much has changed. One significant metamorphosis is that we now have a federal government openly and actively pursuing policies designed to benefit Blacks--and a largely white public that rejects such an agenda...
...often fractured and atomized campus, there are few shared academic institutions that transcend individual interests. The Core serves as a notable exception. It is in the huge Core classes that I, as a government concentrator, can meet Computer Science, History of Science and Folklore and Mythology majors. The shared experiences of Justice, Bible, Myth of America, and Ec 10 provide much needed links of community on this campus...
Instead of comparing the two movements,Hutchins highlighted their alliances. "Mixed-racepeople and bisexuals transcend the polarities,"she offered, as one example of similaritiesbetween members of the two groups...
...reflection, I realized there are many worthwhile majors that are not necessarily useful. What had been upsetting me was that Harvard should be a place where students learn to transcend narrow-minded ethnic and gender prejudices, rather than where they are reinforced or created...