Word: transcender
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...notes, many allusions to Chinese heritage will elude even spectators acquainted with Peking Opera, the crucial inspiration. To Ott, femaleness, not ethnicity, is at the heart of the story. "The relationships this girl has with her parents," she says, "are very specifically a daughter's relationships, in ways that transcend culture but are deeply linked to gender." Yet the show seems far more a piece of Orientalia than an exploration of a young girl's mind and dreams. What it needs is fewer warriors and more women...
Marc McKay '94, who is currently running for a seat in the Iowa state House, says he agrees with Ellenborgen's point. "People in the political scene are receptive to hard work... There's no need to transcend the system," he said from Iowa in a recent phone interview...
Clinton aides said the President hopes to transcend his problems in Normandy by thanking the generation that fought and won World War II for its sacrifice both in war and later at home. Clinton will argue that the sacrifices of his own generation must match those of its parents, if in a different way. And perhaps, they add, he may put his problems in some perspective: with the cliffs looming above Omaha Beach in the background, even the challenges facing Clinton seem small by comparison...
These are good issues to make a movie about; most American families have faced them in one form or another. They transcend race and locale, and are rendered more poignant when you remember that the Carmichael kids are going to have to face prejudice...
...will be, but the way they should be. The solidarity of the oppressed denies members of minority groups the right to decide each alleged case of persecution on its merits. It also denies that support for the rights of a disenfranchised group, if their cause is indeed just, must transcend boundaries of race and ethnicity...