Word: transcending
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...Puzzled by this life, by its heights and depths, by its inexplicable woes and its exquisite ecstasy, by all its contradictions and human embarasment, . . . faith acts affirmatively." We can believe that man will change; that he can transcend the limits imposed on him by the three types of consciousness in Western civilization--Christian, Renaissance, and bourgeois...
...first time in my life, I'm reading the sports page." Murray has fielded four offers to turn radio or television sportscaster; and after a dozen serious inquiries from other papers, the Times is now facing up to the fact that Murray's appeal may transcend the West Coast...
...seems to me, means abandoning a premise that the late Dan Frost operated on when he started the Journal: that most courses and tutorials at Harvard present stylized, narrow, and sectarian approaches to their material, and that a publication like the Journal ought to give students a chance to transcend the limitations of course writing. What the capable papers in the May issue--with the possible exception of Campbell's--badly lack is freshness, the freshness that comes when people stop thinking about external requirements and write about things they're truly interested...
...these glib generalizations and gratuitous slaps at Henry Luce out of the way, I can proceed to 325 itself. It is perhaps less pretentious than its immediate predecessors in its ex cathedra judgments and one-sentence reviews, but it still suffers from a normal yearbook failing: it attempts to transcend its primary function of reporting and to pass on to the higher level of analysis and art. In the process, 325 manages to do an incompetent job on both levels. The yearbook's version of the year just passed is not convincing now, and, unless my memory goes very...
...value of such a music-drama is therefore dependent to a very large extent on the text used. And while Purcell or Mozart could always easily transcend or merely ignore their libretti, Vaughan Williams' Riders can be, ultimately, little better than the J.M. Synge play from which it was adapted. And that play, unfortunately, is not a very good...