Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...growing numbers, the kids are trying to stay down on the farm-or get out to one. Agricultural schools have more city-born students than farm-bred ones. In the shadowed interiors of New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, some of the brightest spots are the rehabilitated neighborhoods where people are drawing together in common interest to find again those small human graces that sustain all existence...
Dick Cooper's words carry weight. A somewhat boyish-looking 42, he is one of the youngest and brightest members of the small group of academics who regularly ride the policymaking circuit between the capital and the campuses. In previous Washington incarnations, he was a senior staff economist on John Kennedy's Council of Economic Advisers, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Monetary Affairs in the Johnson Administration. At Yale, he has not only taught international economics for eleven years but also served as the university's provost from 1972 to '74. Says Yale...
...Jourrialists, most notably Tom Wolfe. On the old New York Herald Tribune, where he edited the Sunday magazine that was to be reincarnated as New York, he gave free rein to such emerging stars as Jimmy Breslin, Dick Schaap, George ("Adam Smith") Goodman. Many of the best and the brightest have left in rage and frustration-or on the wave of New York-borne success. Felker, says Ms. editor and Felker protégée Gloria Steinem, is "the lightning rod of animosity-and of creativity...
...these, by their very presence on a college campus--and not just any college campus but Harvard, symbol of status and privilege--are the best and brightest of the Chicanos--or so one is to think...
...oppression. The revolution begun two centuries ago goes on, for much of the world still seeks the freedom and the dignity of the individual, the sanctity of law that this country has never ceased to seek, enjoy and perfect. The surest path to our own greater success, and the brightest hope for others, is to remain true to the American tradition−a heritage where reality is a point of departure but never our final horizon, and where ideals ennoble reality and enable us to shape our future...