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...Respectable Game Show was a phenomenon of the atomic-age early days of TV, when postwar America embraced the idea of meritocracy and trusted in the best and brightest to conquer space and whup the Russkies. What's My Line? and To Tell the Truth were urbane soirées, frequented by brainiacs and swells like publisher Bennett Cerf and arts advocate Kitty Carlisle, and quiz shows celebrated academics. Twenty-One scandalized the nation--and isn't it quaint to think of Americans being scandalized over a game show?--because people wanted to believe in intellectual Charles Van Doren...
...decades, the soft-spoken gentle giant of tap ran a world-renowned New York City studio. Among his credits: choreographing films (The Cotton Club, Tap) and Broadway musicals (Sophisticated Ladies, Eubie!, Black and Blue--the last of which won him a Tony). He mentored some of tap's brightest stars, including Gregory Hines, Savion Glover, Chita Rivera and Ben Vereen...
...settlers came with ideas they had to junk. Some of their brightest hopes were false. They worked hard and got other people to do their work for them. They were foolish, fierce and surprisingly stubborn. When one thing failed, they tried another. We are their descendants...
From his experiences during the war, Halberstam wrote what is considered one of his greatest works, “The Best and the Brightest.†More than twenty books followed, with his most recent, “The Coldest Winter,†a book about the Korean war, due out this upcoming fall. Halberstam had just finished the last proofs of this book before yesterday’s car crash, according to his wife...
...learned about the Vietnam War, and what he relayed to the American people through his Pulitzer Prize-winning dispatches for the New York Times. But at The Crimson, he will also be remembered as "a very good college journalist"—unarguably one of the best and the brightest to pass through the paper in its 134-year history...