Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...treaty, and pledged his word never to reveal the facts. We at the Tribune believe it was a Chinese diplomat who gave us his copy. The negotiations took place in a stalled taxi in the middle of the Place de la Concorde-this was Lewis' brilliant idea-the only place in the world safe from being overheard. The treaty was mysteriously dropped through the letter slot at the Tribune, wrapped in a piece of Chinese silk (some say a kimono). It would have been treasonable to publish the treaty, but Hunt got Senator Borah to start reading...
...held for two years. It took Johnson's persuasiveness to induce him to stay through preparation of the new budget. Schultze, as the President knew, was the Administration's most effective economic spokesman on Capitol Hill. Even Wilbur Mills describes him as "one of the most brilliant economists I ever...
What met his eye last week was not a paucity of happenings but 1967's "ten grossest excesses." It was a brilliant, unpartisan, vindictive selection. Charles de Gaulle was there, of course, along with Mao and his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The 1967 football season, hanging on "like a summer cold," qualified. So did Jacqueline Kennedy magazine covers and the movie Casino Royale, "the utter boring vacuity of the put-on carried to excess." Among gross literary excesses there was, happily, Marshall McLuhan's "losing battle with the English language," and The Story of O, "unarguably the dullest...
...Lawrence King, while Stefan Riesenfeld of the University of California praises his writing style, which "makes study a pleasure instead of a chore." One of Gilmore's students calls him "the most popular classroom professor at the law school"; another thinks that he has "the most brilliant mind." Friend and Fellow Faculty Member Philip Kurland concludes expansively: "In any generation, there are three or four teachers who are the law teachers of their time, and in this generation one of those is Grant Gilmore...
...same strange object. Both checked their star maps, then hurriedly mounted their bicycles and pedaled furiously to the nearest telegraph office. There they dispatched the word to the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory. Incredibly, the same two amateur astronomers who had independently but almost simultaneously discovered 1965's famous and brilliant Ikeya-Seki comet had discovered another...