Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Being unable to answer that question, I am reduced to offering a personal perspective (hence the title of this piece). When I was younger I lived in fear of finding out I was not as smart as I hoped I was. SAT's and IQ tests made me very uneasy. I still become jittery when someone in the room proposes a brainteaser I haven't heard before. That is part of the reason why I chose to attend an American college known for its unwillingness to give students C's. But this plan failed because intelligence is evident only...
...thought both Samuels and Cielebak did a great job on Clemente in the first," Magarity said. "He's such a smart player that he didn't force the issue, but maybe he should have, since he's almost impossible to stop on that step-back shot...
When Deep Blue beat chess master Gary Kasparov in its 1997 rematch, the news was greeted without too much alarm. After all, chess was just a game, like checkers or tic-tac-toe. If a computer could memorize enough mechanical moves to play, that didn't mean it was smart; it was just good at plugging numbers. Computers can only do what they've been programmed to do, the conventional wisdom said; true originality, the capacity to look at a unique situation and determine an appropriate response, required more than circuits...
...sometimes does. But while other rock-hoppers adhere to a "keep it real" doctrine, Beck feels free to invent his own playful lyrical reality: "I wanna get with you/ Only you/ And your sister/ I think her name's Debra," he sings in the soul-ballad Debra. This is smart music with a smile...
...author, a witty observer of the swells at romantic play. She's also the patient, strong-willed mistress of her own romantic destiny who finally achieves her long-desired true love. The movie may not entirely please Austen purists, but it is well acted, and it achieves a strong, smart, engaging life...