Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to be completely unoriginal here. My roommate s wicked smaht. Yes, yes, I know, this is Harvard. Everyone here is brilliant, right? But seriously, my roommate really is, and now I have proof. Certainly I could have begun a paean like this two years ago, but few would have bought it without my new information...
...brilliant play between the ECAC Player of the Year and the ECAC Rookie of the Year, and in a way it was a passing of the torch. With her versatility as a skater, stickhandler, scorer and defender, Botterill's game may resemble Mleczko's more than anyone else on the squad, and the former Canadian Olympian might replace the former U.S. Olympian as the first-line center next season...
...brilliant play between the ECAC Player of the Year and the ECAC Rookie of the Year, and in a way it was a passing of the torch. With her versatility as a skater, stickhandler, scorer and defender, Botterill's game may resemble Mleczko's more than anyone else on the squad, and the former Canadian Olympian might replace the former U.S. Olympian as the first-line center next season...
Even by his field's indulgent standards, Reich was surely one for the casebooks. Brilliant and charismatic, the Austrian-born psychoanalyst was an early disciple of Freud and produced a shrewd addition to analytic theory: a patient's character, he said, was revealed as much by body language--"muscular armoring," he called it--as by couch talk. Before long Reich split with Freud and went off on his own wobbly path. After dabbling with Marxism, he began theorizing about a universal life-giving "orgone energy"--which, he said, was expressed through neurosis-free orgasms. He fled...
...corresponding with a genius. Unlike trained mathematicians, Ramanujan knew his speculations about numbers were true, so he didn't bother to prove them. That wouldn't do. Hardy brought him to England in 1914, and the pair spent four years working to prove the self-taught mathematician's intuitively brilliant conjectures. Alas, Ramanujan hated England and died of tuberculosis in 1920 at age 32--with so much of his opus left unproved that mathematicians today are still working...