Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GRAMBLING COLLEGE: 100 YARDS TO GLORY (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). ABC Sportscaster Howard Cosell's brilliant documentary on the small, all-Negro Louisiana school that has turned into one of the country's most fertile spawning grounds for pro football players. Dedicated to Coach Eddie Robinson. Repeat...
...ideal President were turned over to an executive recruiting agency, its scouts would find the U.S. full of men of extraordinary ability. They would be dazzled by all the bright lawyers, economists and scientists, the able mayors who run cities more populous than states. The country teems with brilliant managers of great organizations, including virtuosos who shift effortlessly between corporations, foundations and Government service. Quite a few such men know more about the nation's besetting problems than any visible presidential candidate...
...affluent swinging set closer to home, the dowager of Knightsbridge underwent some startling changes during the last couple of years. They seem to have paid off. "The illusion that Harrods' customers were all duchesses was always bunko anyway," says a titled store executive. Mahogany displays were painted a brilliant cerise, truly modern furniture was stocked next to the Louis XV and Chippendale. But foremost among efforts to rejuvenate itself is the store's "Way In" boutique, where the Rolling Stones belt out background music. Since it opened last year, customers spent an astonishing $2.2 million on such...
Baby Mine! The obligation to be clever in some way came as a birthright-rather reverently if hastily tracked through three generations by Family Biographer Ronald Clark. Above Aldous' cradle brooded the example of his grandfather, T. H. Huxley, a brilliant biologist and a public defender of Darwin when Origin of Species was shocking fundamentalists. Representing a kind of caretaker generation, Aldous' father Leonard devoted most of his life to a two-volume biography reciting the achievements of T.H. and looking forward with confidence to his own chil dren's outdoing him. No one is quite sure...
Although during the Hayden piece the second violinist appeared to provide background for Schneider's brilliant performance, the quartet nonetheless played as one--with perfect balance, coordinated variation, and excellent timing...