Word: brilliante
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brilliant...
...case when he credits Vann with saving the Saigon regime from collapse, not once but twice: after the 1968 Tet offensive and again in 1972. Nevertheless, in Sheehan's characterization Vann emerges as a personality to rival the most complex creations of fiction. He was a brave soldier, a brilliant analyst, a born maverick and a savvy political infighter. He was also, as Sheehan eventually learned, a shameless hypocrite with a "secret vice" he could not or would not control. To Sheehan, who worked as a young wire-service reporter in Viet Nam and went on to obtain the Pentagon...
BERNARD SHAW: THE SEARCH FOR LOVE by Michael Holroyd (Random House; $24.95). The first of a projected three-volume life takes its brilliant, cantankerous subject to age 42, through journalism -- and love affairs -- to playwriting and toward his towering reputation...
Lyndon Johnson in Dallas acted first to thwart a possible plot against the traveling party, comforted Jacqueline Kennedy, took the oath and roared back to Washington. There was nothing brilliant about these acts of common sense clearly defined by the demands of the moment...
...anyone can reconcile science and a universe with meaning, he seems to have reasoned, it will be these scientists. From different disciplines, brilliant and somewhat iconoclastic, the work of all three has focused on meaning and the nature of information. At the heart of the book are their insights, and the tale of how Fredkin, Wilson and Boulding arrived at them, through their scientific work and lives well lived...