He surmounted, too, the mental pain of his father's contempt and his mother's neglect.
He surmounted one Sunday with such ease he could have been the Olympic champion Allen Johnson.
Wolff acknowledges that "it was no small thanks to Katharine Angell and others with influence that he surmounted the high barrier of the boss editor's distaste".
But he surmounted the bigotry and graduated 35th in a class of 276, only the fourth black graduate in the military academy's history.
Some doctors told him he would never play again, but he surmounted the odds to win the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis in 2006 and has become one of the most distinctive violinists of his generation.
Not only must he surmount the current economic downturn, but he must do so even as he grapples with the financial crisis left behind by his Republican predecessor, Thomas Gulotta.
In 1979, he won Japanese citizenship after he surmounted major hurdles, including a 50-page essay in Japanese for immigration authorities, who also inspected his house to verify that he was living in a traditional Japanese way.
He surmounted Gottsched's strictures, declaring in 1759, in Briefe, die neueste Literatur betreffend, Nr. 17 ("Letters Concerning the Newest Literature, No. 17"), "Nobody will deny that the German stage owes a great share of its early improvement to Professor Gottsched.
He also surmounted the familiar "personal problems" of the earlier jazz world.
When Mr. Colombo visited the United States in 1971, an editorial in The Times praised his political agility, saying he had "surmounted more perils than Pauline".
