Mr. Cuomo announced a smart set of proposals last month to reduce the ballooning costs of state and city pensions.
At first I was surprised, thinking that this was a glaring omission from in an otherwise smart set of essays.
At Insight, then at the Heritage Foundation, and, finally, at the monthly American Spectator, Brock became part of Washington's smart set of young and extremely conservative publicists, political operatives, lawyers, congressional staffers, and commentators.
"Even with the smartest set of humans on the planet working on these problems, these systems might be so complex that it is difficult for individual humans, scientific experts," he said.
But its muted publicity campaign got a much-needed shot in the arm this week with the release of a surprisingly smart set of free-to-use fake stock photos produced in collaboration with Getty Images.
His work was a smart set of 12 folk-song-based movements in seasonal threesomes, each triptych including at least one vocal number, sung with brilliant purity of sound and line by Yulia Korpacheva.
There are also reruns from a smart set of syndicated series: the science-fiction show "Farscape," the beloved marriage-and-football drama "Friday Night Lights," and the long-running Canadian sitcom "Little Mosque on the Prairie" (here retitled "Little Mosque"), which is set in a Muslim community in Saskatchewan.
It was the early '90s and Powell had just been rediscovered and re-issued; among the smart set of artists and writers, it was considered very stylish to not only be reading Powell, but to bemoan the injustice of her overlooked and almost forgotten work.
Beginning in 1906, he was at various times drama critic for numerous magazines and newspapers, but his name is particularly associated with The Smart Set, of which he was co-editor (1914 23) with H.L. Mencken, and with the American Mercury, which, also with Mencken, he helped to found in 1924.
NBC rightly devoted a lot of time to watching the horses get saddled in the paddock -- in memory, it seems somewhat more than ABC spent -- then walking onto the track, and offered viewers a smart set of graphics that separated the 17-horse field into speed horses, stalkers and closers.
