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...fledgling journal, named after the Greek mythological hero who escaped from a labyrinth using a self-constructed pair of wings, had an even bigger obstacle to surmount. It had little money, no office and had to be housed in the Jefferson physics laboratories...
...their challenge. His handling of the long courtroom scenes is wonderfully alert to unsuspected visual and dramatic possibilities. Better still, he and the screenplay (credited to David Franzoni) are alive to the--yes--sometimes humorous, and therefore humanizing, struggles of the slaves and their would-be rescuers to surmount the language and cultural barriers that separate them. In our own age, with democracy travestied by ethnic- and interest-group politicking, the most instructive thing about Amistad may lie in its demonstration that broad principle, shrewdly advanced, can find ways to assert itself amid factional clamor...
Doermann said his sister suffered "considerable discrimination" in the field but was able to surmount gender bias because of her tremendous self-discipline...
Writing a paper is total effort; it does not just consist of the thought process and actual writing, but also of the labor and exercise involved in overcoming the system of Xeroxing the necessary books. We surmount broken photocopiers, many stairs, long lines, torn money, mean machines and $10 bills to write our opus...
TThis afternoon, however, I will surmount those anxieties. As I step onto the Red Line T car, a layer of stress will lift off my shoulders and be subsumed by the whine of the tracks. Once I arrive in the Delta Shuttle terminal, I will pick up a magazine and watch CNN Airport News until Harvard seems positively foreign. And once I land at National Airport in Washington, D.C., I will vow not to let paltry academic concerns cast a shadow over my weekend. It will take effort, but it is doable and worth doing. Harvard is not contained...