Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alice will be happy to continue what she is doing. TV casting directors seem seized by an insatiable demand for what she calls "funny-looking little people," and she has become one of the brightest and most engaging regular guests on the Dick Cavett Show. Karen and Julie, who are shallower performers with more grandiose ambitions, may face problems. Both have graduated from just singing on the talk shows to staying on to chat with the host. But neither seems to have much...
...high point of the Lenin gala, it was Brezhnev who commanded the brightest spotlight and biggest headlines. Before an audience including 66 foreign delegations, Brezhnev rose in the Kremlin's modernistic Palace of Congresses to deliver a three-hour, 82-page speech. (Kosygin followed the next day with a talk that lasted all of ten minutes.) Pausing only to sip cherry-flavored water, Brezhnev spoke self-confidently on a wide range of subjects, taking a tough but carefully qualified attitude. Nations fighting against imperialism, he said, will always have in Russia "a reliable and true friend." Enlightened circles in "bourgeois...
...dismisses the frequently offered explanation that jocks at Harvard are sidetracked from their athletic careers by other interests. "Face it, jocks here aren't the brightest guys. They're not quitting the team for intellectual enlighenment. When things don't go well they quit. Like rats leaving a sinking ship...
...brightest was painted last week by British Actor Nicol Williamson, who was invited to perform for 270 people at the third of the Nixons' "Evening at the White House" series. Williamson enthralled his audience with soliloquies and songs from Shakespeare, passages from Death of a Salesman and Inadmissible Evidence, and snatches of Robert Benchley, E.E. Cummings and William Butler Yeats. Then he led the dancing-music courtesy of The World's Greatest Jazz Band-in the State Dining Room. At one point the multitalented Williamson grabbed a trumpet and played a few bars; later on grabbed some...
Most Americans find it difficult to grasp that some of the brightest and best-cared-for young are so enraged that they have opted for the nihilism of blowing up society. Diana Oughton's story provides some answers-and engenders some pessimism as well...