Word: brilliante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...become the first Deep Southerner to reach the White House since Zachary Taylor in 1849. His rocket rise out of relative obscurity to the Oval Office heights was one of the most sensational political success stories in U.S. history. Yet he had done it in such a sometimes brilliant, often halting, and finally narrow manner as to convey no commanding mandate for his campaign promises or any demonstrated confidence in his still disquieting personality...
...have no inclination to want a homogeneous society in which someone who is strong or able or brilliant or even fortunate is punished, and his substance-speaking about his financial substance, now-is taken away from him and distributed among those who are less highly motivated. I would not have a punitive tax rate at the upper levels, but I will continue to explore ways to make sure that those who are downtrodden, who are chronically unemployed, whose families have been required to suffer from past discriminations, are involved in the processes of Government and private life...
Orbiting about their two centers of gravity, the reporters assumed positions of lesser constellations, but with some star shine of their own and a great deal of reflected light. Election day plucked them from their brilliant night sky, returning them once again to the earth they left many months ago, to walk among the lesser mortals who had appeared before as just a blurry mass below. Perhaps when they wake from their well-deserved rest, some will pause for a moment to contemplate the election results (they, too, must have cared who won) and reflect upon their part...
Despite Zappa's undeniably brilliant musical abilities--now, he's even into producing, having helped churn out the latest Grand Funk Railroad offering--he's still haunted by a past he largely denies...
...Royal Family, the brilliant Broadway production of George S. Kaufmann--Edna Ferber play about a flamboyant theater family strangely reminiscent of the Barrymore clan, is playing at the Wilbur Theater, 252 Tremont St., Boston. Performances are Monday through Saturday...