Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the armistice, Taubes began his brilliant academic career. He studied first at Zurich and later earned his Ph.D. at Basle under his old underground compatriate, Karl Barth...
...Lutheran Krister Stendahl, 33, one of Sweden's most brilliant Christian scholars, authority on the first century school of St. Matthew, avid apostle of Sweden's highly intellectual Christian youth movement...
...dogma that 'life is just one damned thing after another' "), Toynbee organized history in a pattern. He treated not of nations or races or even "forces," but of civilizations which he saw living and dying in regular cycles. This concept was popularized by Germany's brilliant Historian Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), but where Spengler saw the rise and fall of civilizations inexorably fated, Toynbee believed them subject to man's free will and God's grace...
Laura Fermi's book. Atoms in the Family (University of Chicago Press; $4) starts with a hike outside Rome in 1924, when she met "a short-legged young man . . . with rounded shoulders and neck craned forward." Fermi was only 22, but already a brilliant physicist. Laura, 16, considered him "pretty...
...plainly worships him, but laughs at him just enough to keep him human. She tells how one of his crucial experiments on slow neutrons was carried on in a fountain among unsuspecting gold fish. She giggles gently at his troubles with unruly shirtfronts. She pokes friendly fun at his brilliant friends (who called Fermi "The Pope") and tells how they once got so excited with their scientific talk that her maid thought they were all drunk...