Word: transcends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...none-too-solid Balkan bloc (TIME, Feb. 12). Last week Turkey's Foreign Minister, shrewd Shokru Saracoglu, was back in Ankara after a trip to Sofia of which he said: "The Bulgarian Government now fully shares the Entente view that at this moment the general interests transcend any particular interests." In an interview with Correspondent Anne O'Hare McCormick of the New York Times, Foreign Minister Saracoglu took pains to point out that, whereas Turkey's agreement with France and Great Britain last fall exempts the Turks from having to fight Russia, it does not oblige them...
...romantic head. Novels about theatre people, good or bad, have one thing in common: they delight those who are fascinated by the theatre; they bore those who are not. The Dark Star conducts itself more adroitly and with less "glamor" flapdoodle than most, yet not well enough to transcend the general rule...
...British patrol boats at Gibraltar, refuse to stop and submit to a search? One steamship company, anxious to get a vessel past Gibraltar, thought of ordering its skipper to do just that-shut off all radio communication, black out and try to slip through. Such an incident might easily transcend the adventure of the City of Flint, the U. S. freighter which was captured by the Germans, detained by the Russians, freed by the Norwegians and returned to Baltimore last week under its own flag...
Rivera, however, is primarily a painter. Despite the fact that he too is, in a sense, a decorative artist, his work manages to transcend the limits of pure decoration, for his color is not simply color "in vacuo," but is integrally connected with the subject he happens to be concerned with. So that when we find, as we do in this exhibit, one of Rivera's prints, we no longer find Rivera in his complete form; we find a carefully executed piece, one worthy of praise but something which is emasculated when compared to his painting. Now these distinctions which...