Word: brightness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...defensive in the Roaring Twenties, and William Jennings Bryan, its principal spokesman, found himself under siege by the giants of the emerging Liberalism. He was attacked not only in the press by Henry Mencken and in the courtroom by Clarence Darrow, but even from the pulpit by a bright-eyed Baptist who had the temerity to question the virgin birth and the second coming of Christ...
...allow for differing interpretations and briskly clears away the "cobwebs of fantasy" that have attached themselves to Mary's character over the centuries. Her Mary emerges neither as a Jezebel nor as a saint, but as a high-spirited woman who was brave, rather romantic, and not very bright...
RETURNING TO Cambridge as a sophomore. I went to look at my House. The day was bright and sunny, but an icy wind blew through Mather House, starting at a gaping hole in what appeared to be the dining room wall, and exiting through a broken window two hunks of cement down. It was a Friday morning; nobody was working...
...Coca-Cola trucks, a fleet that Coke officials claim is second in size only to that run by the U.S. Post Office, will be decked out in charcoal and beige uniforms that suggest a football referee improbably wearing a baseball batting helmet. They will carry bright red Coke order books...
NEWS BOARD: Competing for the News Board is the fastest, most efficient way to get an aerial view of the bright and dark sides of this wonderland which we call Harvard. It really helps put things into perspective. The News Board Comp also happens to develop skill and facility at writing the English language better than any Expository Writing section. The Board is looking for people who can combine the greatest simplicity with a quality which, for want of a better name, we call style. News editors write on topics ranging from national elections to Faculty intrigues to freshmen riots...