Word: brightest
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David Halberstam, 45, first won notice in 1964 as a Pulitzer-prizewinning reporter for the New York Times, then eased out of daily deadlines toward the writing of books, including the bestselling The Best and the Brightest (1972). Halberstam retains the good reporter's eye for color, for the pithy anecdote or quotation that can make facts sit up and breathe. He still digs hard for his material; he put five years into this project, read more than 80 books and conducted extensive interviews with well over 500 people. But he listens very selectively, and at times relentlessly forces...
Movies, TV shows, plays and memoirs will eventually construct a mythic reality around the American experience in Viet Nam. World War I's catastrophic trench warfare, which nearly wiped out a generation of England's best and brightest men (France's and Germany's as well), was so utterly new and unfamiliar that a highly literate assemblage spent the next decade, at least, formulating a conception of what it had all been about. Something of the same process is occurring regarding Viet...
...during this weekend in Williamsburg, Va., these three-and 99 others, drawn two apiece from 50 states plus the District of Columbia-are absorbing the interest of adults, for they have been judged the brightest and best leaders of the nation's 3.1 million high school seniors, class...
...Crimson's other brightest hopes, sabreman Mike Bierer and epeeman Rob Kaplan, fell one to three bouts shy of qualifying for the finals...
...very aware that that feeling has to be offset. Some of the brightest students at Stanford and elsewhere are minorities," Hargadon said. "The bottom quarter of our class includes a very diverse group of people, and we don't even have a hockey team," he added...