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...study somehow attract boys who were brighter than the girls? In the majority of the searches, the girls did better in relation to nationwide scores of college-bound female seniors than the boys did to college-bound male seniors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Gender Factor in Math | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

...field events look a little brighter. Freshman Beth Cooley could fill a void in the shot put if her dislocated shoulder recovers in time. The duo of Lenny Yajima and Karen Ueda should be potent in the long jump, and junior Liane Rozzell returns to her aerial escapades in the high jump...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Cruelest Month-November | 11/21/1980 | See Source »

...highly touted women's novel. We decided, after several hours, that the Victorian women wrote of ethics, moral choices and heroines who understood that there was more to life than simply deciding whether to cheat on their husbands with one man or two. But now there is a far brighter light on the subject. An extraordinary and insightful text, Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic does precisely what I and my friends were unable to do: explain why these Victorian works remain as potent, relevant and rebellious today as they did when written more than a century...

Author: By Jacoba Atlas, | Title: The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer & the 19th Century Literary Imagination | 11/18/1980 | See Source »

...networks in its election preparations, Walter Cronkite will have three computer screens in front of him on the anchor desk flashing the latest numbers on the pres1 idential race and various other contests. Tight races and those in which CBS has picked a winner will show up with brighter intensity on these screens. Each of the four regional correspondents with him -Dan Rather, Harry Reasoner, Lesley Stahl and Bob Schieffer-will have two computer readout screens and a small data-processing unit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Election Night Razzle-Dazzle | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

While a good half minute slower than her season's best, a 16:59 last weekend, Beckford's time shined all the brighter considering the notoriously difficult Van Cortland Park course, which boasts a grueling second-mile...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Princeton Slithers by Women Harriers | 10/27/1980 | See Source »

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