Word: brights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bright, witty, and socially conscious, and he speaks with cynicism to the problems of the '80s," said Nina R. Schwalbe '88, the chairman of the Class Day Speaker Committee...
...acceptance speech, McCoy, who is head tutor of the History Department, said that five years ago he came to Harvard because he wanted to teach bright students. "I wanted the opportunity to teach here, to teach Harvard undergraduates. I have decided that this was one of the better decisions I made...
...Soviet Il-76 cargo plane lifted slowly into the bright morning air over Kabul International Airport last week. As it did, a string of incandescent flares dropped from the aircraft, a necessary defense against Stinger missiles, the U.S.-made, heat-seeking, antiaircraft weapons used by the mujahedin, Afghanistan's resistance. On the airport perimeter, sunburned Soviet soldiers stood around a formidable new stone-and-cement guard post topped by a hammer-and-sickle flag. Their thoughts were turning toward withdrawal from their flinty outpost. "Who wouldn't like to go home?" asked Victor Avershin, a blond, 19-year-old private...
...what the Greeks call sovaros, or seriousness. In American politics that may translate into dull and dogged, but on Lesbos, sovaros is high tribute indeed, and the people of Pelopi have it by the barrelful. For just that reason, Pelopi's President Constantinos Stephanou says he foresaw a bright future for Dukakis even back in 1976 when the Massachusetts Governor paid the village a visit: "I knew he was going somewhere, because he's very serious. America hasn't had a serious President since Kennedy...
...work of Donald Sultan, which opened at the Brooklyn Museum recently after a seven-month run in other American museums, is its date. It should have begun in 1997. Then there would be a larger oeuvre to assess, a longer career to discuss, and not just a bright reputation to inflect...