Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Devaluation is becoming the mode. In The Best and the Brightest David Halberstam sees Camelot as an act of hubris created by overconfident young jerry-builders. In the current Harper's, the British journalist Henry Fairlie condemns Camelot as a sort of Washington, D.C., Disneyland that substituted the "politics of expectation" for the politics of performance. Just when the veneer is cracking and the gilt peeling, two members of Kennedy's "Irish Mafia," Kenneth O'Donnell and David Powers, have come along with their ghostwriter, Joe McCarthy, to add another bestselling chorus to the Camelot legend...
Halberstam, presently a fellow of the Adlai Stevenson Institute, will concentrate on Vietnam policy-making under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon, the subject of his recent book. The Best and the Brightest...
...least attempted, as are Chaplin's timing and resilience and Langdon's scrambled innocence. Tati absorbs and assimilates each skill like a diligent pupil taking great care with his lessons, and that is the way they are applied. Watching Tati is like listening to the brightest kid in the class run through his homework, dogged, letter perfect and without inspiration. His movies since M. Hulot's debut have been very like the best scene in that film, where Hulot, out for a little recreation, finds himself slowly and inescapably folding up in a kayak, then sinking majestically...
...BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST by David Halberstam. In a series of political profiles, the author tells how overconfidence helped lead to the morass in Viet...
...Best and the Brightest, Halberstam...