Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americain [It is argued] that the Americans are buying Europe with their balance of payments deficit; that the technological gap and the brain drain together represent a new form of imperialism; that all this comes from the export of Mr. Galbraith's modern industrial state. A brilliant Frenchman, M. Servan-Schreiber, recently published a book about all this which he calls Le Deéuú Americain [The American Challenge; TIME, Nov. 24]. He rejects any protectionist or negative reply by Europe to this challenge. He recognizes that the challenge is inescapable...
...number one singles match, Andover's Paul Brown overcame a brilliant early performance by Jaime Gonzales to defeat the Harvard freshman...
...rooms in a row with an open corridor of door-ways--it is one space in which Katayama's design moves in all directions and shows many good faces. Were his wooden compartments empty--and Katayama never conceived of them without their chairs--it would still be a brilliant creation of light and space in motion...
Harvard's junior goalie was brilliant all evening, registering 28 saves and with-standing heavier pressure than the Crimson mounted against McCann. The B.U. goalie stopped 25 Harvard shots...
...students may fear to try out things that they haven't done before, or haven't done welll. In other words, the better the educational institution, the more likely it is to give students the feeling that they are incompetent or mediocre, and that they are not really very brilliant--unless they are fantastically talented. If they are only moderately talented, say in the top one-tenth of one percent of the population, they are likely to come out with the feeling of being only first-rate second-raters. The Peace Corps and like experiences (ACCION, AFSC, PAPAL Volunteers...