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...Neill retraction is symptomatic of the general decline in Democratic response to the Administration. In the wake of the Grenada invasion, Democrats have seen their foremost leaders stumble or keep mum. Kennedy has kept silent, Glenn and Mondale vied for the loudest comfortable position and O'Neill mumbled about keeping our boys safe. Suddenly, in the Reston interview, O'Neill seemed to strike a strong position...

Author: By Jonathan S. Sapers, | Title: Tip's Flip | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

...professor here since 1972, Verba is one of the foremost authorities on American politics and voter participation--not to mention comparative political analysis. In the last decade, he has authored a half-dozen books, including two American Political Science Association prize-winners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VERBA, Sidney '53 | 11/11/1983 | See Source »

...believe 'Star Wars' will work," said Bethe, one of the country's foremost experts on nuclear energy. "What we have here is a technology that does not now exist...

Author: By Michael C.D. Okwu, | Title: Prominent Physicists Debate Development of Space Weapons | 11/10/1983 | See Source »

...world's foremost authorities on the culture of the Byzantine Empire, which lasted from the fall of Rome (476) to the fall of Constantinople in 1452. Sevcenko has spent most of his adult life conducting such types of scholarly detective work...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: Byzantine Mysteries Unraveled | 11/1/1983 | See Source »

...opera is being changed by history and technology. The Met-which began life on Oct. 22, 1883, in a nondescript yellow brick building at Broadway and 39th Street in Manhattan, and has evolved into the leading opera company in the U.S. and one of the world's foremost-is being changed too. Consider the forces at work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Toward a New Golden Age | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

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