Word: outthought
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During Geyelin's eleven-year stewardship, the Post's editorial columns became what many students of the genre consider to be the country's best, or very close to it: lively, tightly reasoned, well informed and elegantly crafted. Indeed, the Post has for years generally outthought and outinfluenced the archrival New York Times, though veteran Timesman Max Frankel has livened that paper's orotund and occasionally murky editorial page since he became its editor...
...coach and the fact that the game was in New Orleans, an N.F.L. city. Wrong again. Kansas City Coach Hank Stram (see box) had clearly done a better job of preparing his players for the big game than Minnesota's Bud Grant. The Chiefs outran, outpassed, outhustled and outthought the Vikings to gain a richly deserved 23-7 victory...
...Outthought & Outmaneuvered...
...establishing civilian control of the Pentagon as a fact of life as well as a theory, McNamara perhaps went too far in alienating service officers. He not only outthought and outmaneuvered such potentates as General Curtis LeMay, but he sometimes humiliated them as well. Within the Pentagon his information policies throttled internal dissent. Even Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover, himself a rebel against traditional military procedure, protested: "Independence of expression has now become almost unthinkable...
...according to Williams, solving the problem of copying the brain is neither necessary nor desirable, since nature did not design it for intelligence. "The brain of man, like that of other vertebrates, is an item of random design to meet one basic purpose: survival. The fact that it has outthought things like saber-toothed tigers is no evidence that it is particularly apt for abstract thinking...