Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...future may not be the brightest for Harvard's disciples of ping pong, but they will get more cooperation from the residents at 60 Boylston St. than some of God's other missionaries got from the cannibals...
With well-planned steps, Frank has traveled a significant amount of political ground in a short span of time. With his ability, the only limits his career seems likely to encounter are the limits to his ambition. Frank has done what the best and the brightest failed to do in the '60s: move from Harvard academics to nitty-gritty government, keeping personal and intellectual integrity intact. A State House veteran who works on McGee's staff said of Frank, "Barney understands the rules of the game and the rules of procedure. Barney will not lead the charge of the Light...
...life until now, Schlesinger muses, in a sense has been a preparation for his present assignment. One of two sons, he was born into an affluent New York City Jewish family whose accountant father possessed, in the words of Jim's only brother, Eugene, "probably the brightest analytical mind we have ever met." Jim Schlesinger attended the right schools: P.S. 6, Horace Mann, Harvard (summa cum laude. Class of '50), where he was a classmate of Henry Kissinger. After earning his B.A. in economics, Schlesinger took off in 1950 on a traveling fellowship to Europe. In Vienna, then...
GOSSIP IS the favorite American pastime, and Rolling Stone magazine is its chief practitioner in the rock music galaxy. Rolling Stone charts the position of the stars, focusing its telescope on the brightest novas and supernovas. One of its prime luminaries this year is Fleetwood Mac, a group characterized by professional success and personal distress. Since their 1975 bombshell Fleetwood Mac, Warner Brothers' all-time bestseller, three marriages inside the group have crumbled. Despite these marital problems, the beat goes on, as Fleetwood Mac has released a worthy follow-up album, appropriately entitled Rumours...
...second triumph over the Bruins in three weeks was especially gratifying because Brown had been the brightest star in the Ivy League after beating Columbia and Cornell before getting the rasberry last night...