Word: smartest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dartmouth, which Vice-President and Treasurer Robert Field said lost less than 10 percent of its $600 million endowment in the crash, may have been the smartest of all the Ivies...
...This is not just because they aren't accepted, but because they don't even bother to try to come here. They know that they wouldn't make the grade, they know they wouldn't fit in. And when dumb people do come here, we generously instruct them. The smartest Harvard students and professors rally to the cause. With clever phrases and melodious hymns we gracefully expose their abysmal dumbness and assert our intellectual primacy. In this way either we gently persuade them and borderline students into being smart or we succeed in keeping them and their dumb ideas away...
...underestimate Dukakis. He's got to be one of the smartest politicians in the country, he has enormous discipline, some first-rate political operatives ready to help, a national press corps that is already very impressed, and the potential to tap enormous reservoirs of Greek and Jewish financial support...
Arguments are being waged over which of the triumvirate is the greatest, but none over who is the smartest. Polishing off a double major in three years, Kosar had two seasons of eligibility remaining when he contrived his own N.F.L. draft and installed himself last year as the boy genius of the Cleveland Browns. Considerately, he signaled the game plan to Testaverde, who otherwise might have transferred. Because of all the talented players lately streaming to Miami in search of a professional halfway house, the pro longest in the making has been Testaverde. (He even lingered an extra year...
Reagan may be the dumbest and the smartest President that the U.S. has ever had. He has made a brilliant career out of being underestimated. Critics have rather superciliously thought that an actor coming into politics was somehow getting in over his head, working in deeper professional waters than he should try. To a politician, an actor was a lightweight, which may say something about the limited self-awareness of politicians. If they had thought more carefully or taken Reagan more seriously, they might have recognized that the actor's gift, applied to politics, has profound implications, some of them...