Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John T. McNaughton was a brilliant man. His sudden death at the age of 45 has deprived Washington of an increasingly prominent official. The death of his wife, Sally, means the loss of a charming lady...
...reporter has to say about the conditions under which the news will be obtained. President Johnson was able to force whole herds of reporters to follow him around the White House grounds in the hot sun on the chance that he might drop something worth printing. And a brilliant young expert on Soviet affairs in the Intelligence and Research section of the State Department can extract a promise that even the pseudonym "analyst" will not be used to describe him as the source of the valuable information he provides. Both the President and the expert can command their prices...
...modern analogies which don't exist. You have to warn yourself and take these chances. I think there is a great deal of resurfacing of traditional features of Chinese life in the midst of all this effort to make everything new and different, and meet modern problems. When a brilliant study appears like, for instance, Bill Skinner's study of marketing structure--here's a man whom some of you have read. He shows that in any given area, the markets occur on a pattern. The first, third, fifth and seven day in a 10-day cycle, or the second...
...Hayley Mills is outstanding in a cast of seasoned performers. Hayley's father-in-law on film is her real-life father, John Mills; beery-voiced and bleary-eyed, he once again demonstrates his ability to breathe life into any character he plays. This time he gives a brilliant full-length portrait of a proletarian father who tries to reach his children but who cannot touch them without giving hurt. At the end, when his son asks his advice for the first time, the old man breaks down and cries. The scene might have been merely maudlin. Mills makes...
...description of the circumcision rites of remote African tribes described by a dry, rustling voice like the crumbling of yellowed paper." On the city's famed markets in the fall: "Rows of hare-gray, attenuated Gothic sculptures-cling to the portals of butcher shops, flanked by pheasants whose brilliant tail feathers swing and whip in the breeze...