Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There's definitely a trend toward more qualified people applying," Bierman said. "If you want to, call them the brightest, or whatever you want to call them...
...revisionist historians. When Rip left the U.S. the faint afterglow of Kennedy magic was still warm to the touch. Then they called it charisma. Now they call it Sha-melot. Such books as Henry Fairlie's The Kennedy Years and David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest sound the knell for the '60s and its leaders. The returnee has missed the spate of Concerned Books: Soul On Ice, Deschooling Society, The Whole Earth Catalog-when Rip left, earth was only dirt-plus almost every float in Norman Mailer's Mr. America Pageant. Lose...
...spirit of tranquillity but with a sense of impotence and self-interest. The rage of the antiwar demonstrators has dissipated without a true sense of initiative or accomplishment. The once powerful liberals, pursued by such unforgiving histories as David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest, still try to understand their guilt and re-invent their philosophy...
...Best and the Brightest...
This is why, I suspect, the Dean and the high councils of government prefer to remain quiet and to appear too important to let the public know the truth about money matters. As one previous Harvard dean, and numerous teachers. Professor Dunlop runs off to join "the brightest and the best" to serve the state and attempt to run our lives. I for one am not the least comforted by the prospect. Respectfully. Jon von Briesen...