Word: brightest
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...Jeopardy. But this may not be true much longer. In spite of the notable recent upgrading of such already fine schools as Howard and Morehouse College, two-thirds of the 800,000 black college students, including many of the brightest, are now attending white institutions. Distinguished black professors have also joined the "brain drain," and as a result, some of the nation's 120 black colleges and universities are in jeopardy. Generally committed to accepting the financially strapped graduates of inadequate secondary schools, they are now hard pressed to enroll more qualified black students, to improve their faculty...
...Even the brightest of his recent songs, however, carry their quality very lightly. "True, Paul's not innovative at the moment, but nobody is except Stevie Wonder," says Singer-Composer Harry Nilsson, a Beatles crony from way back, adding with some heat, "I don't buy all that crap about saccharine lyrics." Says Bhasker Menon, 41, president of Capitol, which distributes the McCartney records in the U.S.: "Paul is a consummate musician. When he does Yesterday it is one of the most beautiful songs I ever hear." Perhaps meaning to flatter, he adds with impolitic directness...
...Brain Wilkins, and Don Gillespie (as the Missionary, the Judge, and the Governor) merge into one spewing monotone; the Queen should be a mannered foil to Virtue, but L. Maxine Freeman lacks the necessary elegant pretension. Paul Brasuell shines as her valet, simpering and swaying his way to the brightest moments of the show...
...Kosinski, Polish-born author (The Painted Bird, Steps, Cockpit) and a frequent guest on Johnny Carson's Tonight show, detects a basic paradox for the novelist and television. "Bear in mind," he says, "that in this country people watch the conversation." To David Halberstam (The Best and the Brightest), spreading the word is like being a political candidate. Says he: "I call it the Nixonization of self. You turn yourself into a human cassette." There is also the nearly hopeless task of trying to explain an idea or complex subject without commercial interruption. South Viet Nam's former...
Much laughter, many cheers and at least one low wolf whistle for Diane Keaton, who looks like the brightest light comedienne in movies. She brings nicely scrambled wit and bushwacked sex appeal to even the lowliest undertakings...