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Still, as Musicologist Barry Brook of the City University of New York points out, "No one has to compare Haydn with Mozart. He is not Mozart. But compared with those of the other composers of the 18th century, his operas are superb musically and deserve a far better fate than they've received...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Are Haydn Operas Coming Back? | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

...Johns Hopkins. But, despite the lopsided score, there were a few bright spots in the Crimson's performance. Sophomore Brian Edmonds played brilliant defense guarding the country's best all-around lacrosse player, attackman Jeff Cook, holding the prolific scorer to three goals. In addition, Tim Pendergast had a superb game in net, turning away over 30 Blue Jay blasts...

Author: By Becky Hartman and John Rippey, S | Title: Laxmen Set to Go Nowhere | 3/26/1982 | See Source »

...empathy as well for a tortured, constantly overlooked middle child. The meatiest role of the three is probably that of John, the obnoxious teenager utterly scorned by siblings and parents alike, and Justin Richardson treads the fine line between caricature and believability, screeching and gloating with aplomb and a superb sense of timing...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: King of the Forest | 3/23/1982 | See Source »

Despite the 19 that got by Pendergast remained calm and turned away 32 Blue Jay blasts with some superb saves. THE NOTEBOOK: The Crimson's first tally came on a Jamie Wright-Rob Hawley breakaway when Wright dished the ball to Hawley, who suffered it in the net... The second goal came courtesy of Blue Jay goalie Quinn, who dropped the ball into the twines. Matt Davis got credit for the tally...

Author: By Becky Hartman, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Lacrosse Teams Go South, Drop Season Openers | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

Over the years, the quality of U.S. intelligence emerging from Central America has ranged from superb to poor to just plain awful. Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, as the CIA'S attention shifted to Southeast Asia and Washington relied more on space-age technology than undercover agents, intelligence operations in Central America deteriorated. In 1973 U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua Turner Shelton consistently underplayed the opposition to President Anastasio Somoza in his reports home, thus blinding Washington to the signs of rising turmoil. Complains one U.S. specialist on Central American affairs: "Too often [our] ambassadors in the region felt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judging Spies and Eyes | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

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