Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number two at the Pentagon, Vance became thoroughly familiar with Viet Nam's political and military problems-knowledge that will serve him well in the negotiations. With his passion for precision and clarity, he is a superb administrator as well as a brilliant legal mind with a virtually encyclopedic memory. Vance characteristically dresses in dark suits, white button-down shirts and bold-striped ties. In 1947, he married Grace Elsie Sloane, daughter of John Sloane, former board chairman of Manhattan's W & J Sloane, the nation's oldest home-furnishing house. The Vances have five children...
They engaged in the most brilliant and spectacular form of combat in the history of mankind," Parsons wrote in 1917 of the pilots with whom he shared honors and excitement (he bagged eight enemy planes, was credited with seven "probables...
Died. Sir Harold Nicolson, 81, Britain's brilliant historian (The Congress of Vienna) and diarist, who in Volumes I (1930-39) and II (1939-45) of Diaries and Letters gave a penetrating analysis of the Establishment; in Kent, England. Husband of the late novelist Vita Sackville-West and son of a Brit ish lord, Nicolson moved with ease through the rooms at the top, recording with candor and wit the intrigues and personalities of Europe's destiny shapers. He was devoted to Churchill, disdainful of De Gaulle, yet found nearly everyone fascinating. "Only one person in a thousand...
Despite Strachey's reputation as perhaps the most brilliant of the Apostles, he was denied a fellowship by Cambridge, took only second-class honors, and left the university in 1905 to begin 13 years of scratch-penny frustration as a book reviewer and minor literary essayist. Then in 1918, after two years of fierce work in defiance of his chron ically miserable health, he brought out the four devastating historical essays-on Dr. Arnold, Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale and Chinese Gordon-that shredded all lingering pretensions of Victorian moral eminence. "The his torian of Literature," Strachey had once written...
...Square the riot seemed to fizzle. Students tried to get back into the Yard. But in a brilliant tactical maneuver, police shut the gate on half of them, thus splitting the ranks...