Word: brilliante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poor Roman baker, Ottaviani, a brilliant canon lawyer, joined the Vatican Secretariat of State...
...artistic success but a Scoreboard failure, finishing fifth. Hastily recruited from the second tier of amateur players-most of the best played instead in the Pan American Games-the youthful Americans were unschooled in international rules and woefully short on muscle and experience. Nevertheless, their fluid fakes and brilliant improvisations drew large crowds, even to their practice sessions. A bravura moment came when Herb Williams, 21, a forward from Ohio State, slammed home a fearsome dunk against Yugoslavia and shattered the backboard in the process. After a moment of startled silence, the Soviet crowd roared with laughter and cheers...
...ironic that last week President Carter's appointment of Volcker to replace incoming Treasury Secretary G. William Miller as chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank was generally viewed as a brilliant defense of the dollar. Said usually testy Senate Banking Committee Chairman William Proxmire: "The President has shown outstanding judgment. His appointment will be praised by Congress, by participants in domestic financial markets and by the international monetary community." Added the Brookings Institution's Robert Solomon: "The President couldn't have found a better man." The stock market shot up, bond prices improved, and, despite Carter...
...Hamilton Jordan, 34, wrote a shrewd, sensitive 72-page memo sketching out in brilliant detail in 1972 the course Candidate Jimmy Carter had to follow from Plains, Ga., to the White House. Carter seldom wavered from Jordan's plans. Ever since, Jordan has been the President's top political strategist, and this month was officially named White House Chief of Staff?even though critics claim Jordan embodied some of the Administration's most serious managerial flaws. Jordan has a swift, conceptual mind, reads political moods and trends skillfully, and although he is personally disorganized is highly imaginative. Jordan looks...
Many of the conservatives are indeed old, and few, if any, are as young as Neocritic Steinfels, 38. Perhaps comparative youth makes him both shrewd and intolerant. His research is impeccable and his stylistic analysis of the rhetorical devices employed by Kristol and Moynihan is brilliant. For the most part, though, the book remains an ideological paper chase...