Word: transcending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only in so great a performance as that of Koussevitzky's last night that the Missa can transcend such a fog of intellectualism, can transcend the secularism of Symphony Hall, teeming with myriad nobodies feverishly clutching their programs. But by so great a performance it can and did transcend these bonds and become the religious credo that it was meant to be. To explain verbally what this meaning is is quite hopeless. The critic pokes into a piece of music from the outside with a long pointed stick, but he can never get at the real essence. To anyone...
...polar aloofness between advisor and advisee. In theory, the relationship is the ground-breaker for tutorial; it acquaints the student with the broader aspects of his field of concentration through the friendly medium of a personal association. It provides that the advisor's work with his charge shall transcend the signing of a study card, and that he shall attempt to awaken the latter's interest in the educational enterprise, or, finding it awake, pass him along into the tutorial program where he belongs. Where tutorial is too strictly limited, the advisor may assign readings and carry on the work...
...seeks to escape from the insecurity of freedom and finiteness by asserting his power beyond the limits of his nature. Limited by his finiteness, he pretends that he is not limited. Sensing his transcendence, man "assumes that he can gradually transcend [his finiteness] until his mind becomes identical with universal mind. All his intellectual and cultural pursuits . . . become infected with the sin of pride.. . . The religious dimension of sin," says Dr. Niebuhr, "is man's rebellion against God. . . . The moral and social dimension of sin is injustice...
...questions raised by the report, however, transcend personalities. They have to do with the general welfare. One of the grave questions was how large a Government program could be imposed on the nation without weakening U.S. democratic principles. Could the U.S. insure itself against war without turning into an authoritarian state...
...rest of the U.S., 200 from Europe, Latin America, Asia. In ten polyglot residences he will mix them well, hopes to transform them into citizens of the world. Says he: "This won't be an international school. 'International' has bad connotations these days. We want to transcend nations...