Word: brightest
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...then fall of which Bundy came to symbolize. The scion of a foreign policy establishment whose members unabashedly viewed America's leadership role (and their own) as a sacred destiny, Bundy became the epitome of the well-intentioned arrogance that David Halberstam grandly captured in The Best and the Brightest...
...attention on the internal functioning of the cell and the myriad chemical interactions that are the essence of the activities of all living things. The new field of study soon established itself as a distinct scientific specialty, known as molecular biology, and grew so rapidly that some of the brightest young minds in the Western world began flocking to its bustling labs and classrooms...
...heard about him as a young man. He was one of the brightest faculty members ever produced around here," said Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. "You felt you always had to reach intellectually to keep up with...
...book The Best and the Brightest, David L. Halberstam '55 tells a story of Bundy's time at The Grotton School. Bundy had not prepared a speech he was supposed to deliver that day, so he stood in front of the class with a blank piece of paper in his hand and gave an impromptu oration that would be remembered years later for its brilliance...
...their media countershadow--so that the brightness now trails an equal and opposite darkness. Is it that terror and the media were implicated in some interconnected, overcommercialized Heisenberg effect? Did the media focus on the Games invite a terrorist to fasten his fatal attention where the lights were brightest? Perhaps. (On the other hand, the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia and elsewhere carried on its terror with no lights or cameras on hand. The Klan never heard of Werner Heisenberg...