Word: brilliante
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...HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO THE REAL PEOPLE IN YOUR BOOK, LIKE GENERAL SHERMAN. Oh, it's a very serious responsibility, and I take it very seriously. Sherman fascinated me. I had read his memoir. He was a brilliant writer--he was almost as good as Grant. They were the best writing generals we've ever had. And I tried to do justice to that and to acknowledge the conflicts within him. He thought the Confederacy was an act of treason and had to be dealt with, and the way you fight a war is without limit...
...Harvard’s greatness was reaffirmed in its decision to appoint Lawrence Summers, a brilliant, provocative, and intellectually honest man who could show American universities what a liberal education was all about. The triumph of his Lilliputian adversaries, however, confirms what I had always feared about Harvard, that it is a bubble of self-congratulation and small-mindedness. The ramifications of his ouster will be broad and destructive, as free-thinkers and censors at schools across the country recalculate their positions relative to one another. This is a shameful day for the University...
...would you, as students, like to be openly insulted in a class taught by a brilliant professor who thinks that you are second rate? And if that behavior becomes a pattern, would you still consider him or her a role model that Harvard should retain? This does not even address the issue of whether you are, in fact, “second rate...
...records at Harvard’s radio station in the basement of Pennypacker. On the cover of “Today,” the band’s second full-length, someone has scrawled in Bic pen: “Damon, the percussionist on this recording, gave a brilliant and cogent Duchamp presentation in the Jameson seminar last year.” It’s signed by someone named Vodka. Krukowski, for one, takes his duel life—and the above comment—in stride. “I bet I know who that...
...certainly hope that Larry has a brilliant future ahead of him,” he said. “He certainly has the capacity to do extraordinary things...