Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, when the weather turned mild and trees sprouted buds, corporate recruiters would flock to the nation's campuses, intent on signing up the best and the brightest of the graduating seniors. But in the past several years the interviewing often has been a polite and fruitless exercise on both sides: many students were not anxious to join companies-especially those making munitions or polluting the environment-and businesses were not eager to hire large numbers of new graduates amid alternating threats of recession and inflation. This spring the atmosphere has once again changed: the recruiters are back...
...nearing the end of his first term on the Cleveland School Board in 1969. He had been elected to that body as a liberal hope and he was (and is) fond of making analogies between Harvard and his experiences there. With his reputation as one of the best and brightest secure both in Cleveland and at Harvard, his opportunities seemed just about limitless. In the better watering spots of Cleveland, it is said, Calkins was touted as a possible successor to the mantles of Jack Kennedy and John Lindsay...
Going south to where the sun shines brightest is an ideal way to spend spring break. If someone other than yourself is footing the bill it makes the prospects for a good time all the better. If, however, you have to practice day in and day out, a Florida vacation might not seem all that attractive. For Harvard's spring teams, most of which are going south, the one week sojourn is the final stage of preparation for the opening of regular season competition in early April...
HARVARD'S ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT fancies itself as the brightest star in the University's galaxy. By certain measures this might very well be so. Harvard's faculty includes three of the five winners of the Nobel Prize for Economics and more former members of the President's Council of Economic Advisers than can easily be counted...
...defender of individual rights against the majority--and went on the prowl for their weaknesses. He packed his Alabama law degree like a pistol; his work in the South became his white charger; and he mounted up in an effort to ride roughshod over Harvard's best and brightest...