Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Kohoutek is at its brightest, it will pass within 13 miles of the sun and be 75 million miles from the Earth...
...game augury. I expected Harvard to revive and regain at least some vestige of its lost honor, if not the lead. But things only got worse: the New Haven sky grew grayer and grayer, obscuring the surrounding hills. By 3:30 p.m. the weather was uncommonly foul. The brightest objects in sight were Harvard's white jerseys, the fans' foul weather gear and the grass on the field. The situation became downright absurd when the gray metamorphisized, converting into rain, and gave 41,247 disgusted fans the excuse to depart they wanted. The Bowl, which had originally been little more...
...settlement rather than resolved by a bloodletting (no matter how distant from our shorelines). The architects of decent in both the national Executive and Congress--Free Worlders all believe rightly we hold the edge in this game, that we hold the chips (read: technology), the best and brightest players the most efficient organizations, and as always being them the fastest gunmen, to dominate any and all bargaining sessions and literally control the agenda for the future. A corollary belief is that the achievement of a (nearly) warless international community dominated by U.S. power would allow this nation's domestic machinery...
...GUESS Vladimir Mayakovsky probably had something on the ball. Born in 1893, he joined the Bolsheviks at the age of 14, became a Futurist poet, and then the brightest star in the Soviet poetic firmament for a decade or so after 1917. He evidently had mixed feelings about this. "I'm fed to the teeth with agit-prop," he remarked in a poem published about three weeks before his suicide in 1930. More important, he apparently had his doubts about whether the Soviet state was still worth writing agit-prop about. After his suicide Stalin announced he was the greatest...
Harvard has decided that largelecture style education and bureaucratized departments are the key ways it wants to teach. The best and the brightest of the College are snatched off this educational treadmill by the honors majors and allowed to taste what a Harvard education ought really to be like...