Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When he starts to see beyond the pages of his books, he's likely to walk into walls and lose his directional capacities for a while," I overheard Dr. God mumble. "But we've discovered2
...Just remember to be aware of the distance to the exit from any room you find yourself in, and make sure you can get there on a moment's notice. Don't even talk to obvious assholes, they're not worth the effort. Refuse to reveal the essential details beyond name and rank, that is, don't tell anyone where you're from, what your SAT scores were, or what you think you'll major in. Stay in your room a lot. One warning, though: if you really go for this technique, it will color the rest of your Harvard...
...Fundamentally, we accept the role of the central government in foreign and defense policy," says Sheik Ezzedin Hosseini, a Kurdish spiritual leader. "But beyond that, we want to run our own show." Hosseini, like almost every other Kurdish leader, rejects separatism, if only because a cutoff from the oil-funded Iranian national budget would be disastrous...
...power seemed to evaporate in one humiliating and dramatic day. At Vatican II's first session in 1962, he was orating against liturgical reform and ran well beyond the ten-minute limit on speeches...
...Dutch opera Reconstruction, a political fantasia on Don Giovanni in which the Don represented imperialism and the Commendatore turned out to be Che Guevara. Thus it comes as no surprise that Houdini is suffused with a romantic-and at times sentimental-populism. In the final scene, Houdini appears from beyond the grave with the message that "there is no heaven but the people/ Let the people of the world/ shake off their chains/ and sing." To move from a vaudeville artiste slipping out of handcuffs to this kind of cosmic hymn is a long leap-too long. Except for some...