Word: brightest
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...Historically, all momentous changes in the organization of a society or community have been opposed by traditionalist groups. These traditionalist groups always get a prominent mention in the history books and represent the zeniths of the society that preceded the change. That's us. We're the best and brightest of the segregators by race, by extracurricular interest, and by levels of pretension. Hear us roar...
...some young, lovely woman on the arm of a short, sleazy general. The soft breeze off the sea; the intermittent light of cars, winking along the Malecon; the Nacional above us, like a giant beached galleon: it was like a romantic's Eden. And here I was with the brightest Eve in Havana, and she was asking me to rescue her from Paradise...
...former Secretary of Defense returned to admit that he--and the "best and the brightest" of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations--were "wrong, terribly wrong" in prosecuting a losing effort against the Vietnamese Communists. His apology did not erase the horrors Vietnam's victims have suffered and still remember. However, he is to be commended for his candid and long-awaited admission of error...
Lithgow desribed similar difficulties, which helinked to his academic background. "You go toHarvard, and you are among the brightest, thebest, and you know you are [among them]...[Butthen] you're on the streets, you are auditioningfor Drano commercials, and soap operas, anythingyou can get, anything. And I think it may be avery specific difficulty for people who come froman environment like [Harvard]," he said...
...very excited about joining the faculty of Harvard," Caramazza said. "It has the reputation of having some of the very brightest undergraduates...