Word: surmountable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bookstein's criticisms of the pianist's life here are minimal, partially because he seems to have both the guile and the dedication to surmount all obstacles. He plans to give at least six recitals next year, and his strenuous practicing schedule shows no sign of letting up. But the bulk of his musical education, like that of other serious performers at Harvard, will take place outside the classroom. "I'm not here to learn piano performance," he says. "Harvard does not offer piano performance...
...responsible ordinance--I think it will get through the city council," Sullivan sid. If it does, Harvard and MIT may finally run up against a legal wall harder to surmount than the fiery rhetoric and dramatic protests of years past...
...addition to a statistically successful season, the squad achieved an emotional unity over the course of the year that helped it surmount numerous injuries, illnesses, archrival Northeastern, and many of its own limitations...
DIED. Jane Froman, 72, spunky St. Louis-born singer and actress whose long fight to surmount crippling injuries suffered in a 1943 plane crash was dramatized in the 1952 movie With a Song in My Heart; of a heart attack; in Columbia, Mo. Froman was a popular balladeer en route to entertain troops when her flight crashed near Lisbon. Her marriage to the pilot who saved her life had a fairy-tale flavor, and the optimism she maintained through more than 30 operations on her crippled legs touched millions, especially when she sang such sentimental favorites...
...having survived wars, slumps and excessive booms, capitalism stands to surmount the current crises. Writes Left-of-Center Economist Robert Heilbroner, one of capitalism's most fervent critics and an advocate of central economic planning: "History has shown capitalism to be an extraordinarily resilient, persisting and tenacious system, perhaps because its driving force is dispersed among so much of its population rather than concentrated solely in a governing elite." After predicting its imminent collapse for well over a century, even capitalism's critics recognize the staying power of its ideas...