Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spurred on by the brilliant early-season swimming of freshman David Lundberg, Harvard sank the Naval Academy Mid-shipmen, 72-41, at Blodgett Pool Saturday to run its dual meet record...
...kind of nebulous," Peter Nsiah was riddled with injuries last year, but he will probably be the number one sprinter today. Don Chapus--who McCurdy had hoped to move to the quarter mile--will sprint today, and freshman Phil Askenazy is likely to join him. "The sprinters aren't brilliant," McCurdy said, "but there are people there...
John Silber is never one to back down in a confrontation. Cool, brilliant, and articulate, he fires verbal salvos with wilting accuracy--he once described faculty activists as "coffee house unionists" and reminded a student union president of his "pimples...
...people see Silber in such a charitable light. No one denies that he is brilliant and enormously articulate, but many believe he is using his talents to the detriment of Boston University. For example, his critics say his abrasiveness and intransigence in labor negotiations were a major stimulus for union activity at B.U., which has had three strikes within the last year...
...society and its culture is something that they have a basic instinct for. Americans, when they start to study European culture have no historical foundation at all on which to build. This is a fundamental problem which Harvard ignores almost completely. Again it is paradoxical that such a brilliant department--which makes Harvard one of the best places in the world to study history, at least as a graduate student--should transmit so little of its wealth to non-specialists. However, apart from the institutional problems of trying to do everything in no-time flat, the very scholarly brilliance...