Word: brilliante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...musicians. Fortunately, they were 65 of the best young instrumentalists Keene could recruit from around the U.S. Said Keene proudly: "It's the finest orchestra Spoleto has ever had." Leading the players adroitly through the lushly colored Tchaikovsky score, Guide Ajmone-Marsan, the Italian-born conductor, made a brilliant U.S. operatic debut...
...would say for the first half-hour. Mrs. Lou, a long-suffering woman who had spent her life finding silver linings for all her husband's clouds, went into a spiel about the nicer attributes of modern architecture and how, after all, Carlo was still at Harvard, surrounded by brilliant people living the life of the mind. Besides, she added, pointing out the charming bastion of ruggedly individualistic capitalism occupying the opposite street corner, there's a superette nearby so Carlo won't starve when he's up late studying...
Then Beth met Greg singer. He was premed, brilliant, shy and seldom left his room for a destination other than the Bio labs. On the rare occasions that he went to a party, he would walk in, count the number of men there, divide it by the number of the women there, and compute the ratio. Then he'd smile at his host and flee. Beth was going through a premed stage at the time and she would often study with Greg. She owed her high grades that semester not to any scientific aptitude but to her desire...
...most Catholics' existence, because they usually adopt a lofty air that implies they are somehow privy to the wisdom of Creation and a bunch of other theological secrets the rest of us are, quite literally, dying to be let in one. But Ignatius is especially sensitive to the "brilliant Jesuit" mystique, probably because the Jesuits aren't interested in Math teachers with extraordinary punting ability). "Harvard," I pressed on, bearing in as his defenses crumpled, "doesn't have single Jesuit. Not one. Nothing but WASP's, but they're pretty harmless...
Back when he was a high-school senior opening his gothic-lettered acceptance letter, Sam thought Harvard was really going to be the place to be, a place to meet consistently brilliant, well-adjusted, interesting people...