Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brian Wilson of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute sees Kamath as "the rare blend of gifted intellect and industry encased within a modest and wonderfully pleasant young...
...match these less enchanted times, Ellroy is one of the most respected crime writers today to sling out stories ripped from the underside of American history. His heroes and villains crawl through dark worlds of dirty secrets but secrets which are paradoxically laid bare to a piercing, raking intellect. The subtext of the scandal sheet is that nothing is secret; everything can be known...
...style is lovely and unpretentious, and her dramatic encounters are fraught with intelligent psychological insights. While Joey Becker may lack the complexity of, for example, Madame Bovary (although parallels between the two women undeniably exist), overall she is a very well-developed character. Ultimately the juxtaposition of melodrama and intellect give her work the air of a very sophisticated soap opera...
...span of 90 seconds in which its on-ice manpower shifted between six, four, five, six, and then five again. Neither too-many-men penalty was called, and the self-imposed man-down situation didn't prove to be costly, but it was clear that the Crimson's collective intellect was still sleepwalking somewhere in the locker room...
...private, Greenspan is full of insights like this. He is as much an observer of people as of markets. Rubin, among others, says the joy of working with Greenspan lies in both the power of his intellect and the sweetness of his soul. Though the world has come to know him through his opaque congressional testimony, friends know him as the Juilliard-trained saxophone player who spent two years touring with a swing band before taking up economics. The quiet romance of the man has always been present if you looked hard enough. Ayn Rand told friends, "What I like...