Word: brilliante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...covered with pictures of women and the women's magazines are covered--with pictures of women. Women playwrights and authors, even of the past and often of dubious quality, are hoisted in the national spotlight. We are expected to listen to musicians who are women not because they are brilliant musicians, but because they are women. Women are complicated, men are easy. Women are important, men are trivial...
...experience, and I speak only from my experience, women seem stronger and more stable, men more brilliant and devoted; then again, in my family, the women have always managed the financial affairs and directed the family, often holding the jobs, if anyone did. The men were very mild, very gentle sorts, quiet, often depressed, barely there, but always charming and witty. It worked very well, and I am still in awe of the iron hand with which my grandmother ruled my grandfather. The moral of this, I suppose, is that among the vast numbers of humans on the globe...
...behind Hemenway's court an hour before the match in anticipation of the first meeting in college competition between the 1977 men's national champ--Page--and the collegiate champ--Desaulniers. What the crowd witnessed was a one-man magic show, as Desaulniers mystified Page with some of his brilliant shotmaking while munching on Page's assortment of shots as if they were so many smoked baby clams...
Describing the men's squash match with Princeton on Saturday afternoon as anything but anticlimactic would be like saying Mike Desaulniers doesn't know his way around a squash court. Except for top man Desaulniers' brilliant play, the contest--and with it the rights to the national championship--belonged to the Tigers as they devoured the Crimson, 8-1, in front of a large partisan crowd at Hemenway...
...medical profession as I can, but that's it. The world is smaller, colder, darker by far for me than it was when I was a Communist ... That's a funny thing to say here, isn't it?' He laughs, waving his hand toward the brilliant Arizona afternoon. 'I've made my peace with my life, but I have no illusions that I live a life larger meaning...