Word: brainchildren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both GRAMCO and U.S. Investment Fund are the brainchildren of a one time White House summer intern, GRAMCO President and Founder Keith Barish, 25. Even before he left the University of Miami after his junior year in 1965, Barish had accumulated a small fortune with various enterprises, including a housing project in Mexico; he had also founded Manufacturer's National Bank of Hialeah (assets: $10 million) and become a director of Hamilton Life Insurance Co. Though his first love was politics ("I thought the greatest thing in the world would be to be a U.S. Congressman"), Barish decided...
...nonfiction book called The Promise of Space are selling briskly in bookstores. Some 22,000 miles above the equator, communications satellites are relaying TV pictures and telephone calls between the continents. The movie, the books and the satellites all have something in common: they are the brainchildren of Arthur C. Clarke, a tall, springy and remarkably imaginative Englishman whose writing bridges the gap between the far reaches of science fiction and the intricate realities of scientific fact...
...evidence, she was a mortally serious Christian and a ferociously committed artist, a childless woman who lay in her bed and labored every day for six hours a day, all year for more than 40 years, to bring forth a race of poems. The worst of them are idiot brainchildren afflicted with echolalia; the best of them are fierce and radiant creatures of the metaphysical imagination. In Dirge for the New Sunrise, dated the day the bomb fell on Hiroshima, Dame Edith writes in her ultimate Miltonic manner...