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Some executives dispute such interpretations of the Government data. GE argues that it would still rank as the patent leader if the Government had included patents granted to R.C.A., which GE acquired in 1986. Arno Penzias, vice president of research at AT&T Bell Laboratories and a Nobel laureate, says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eyes on The Prize: Japan challenges America's reputation | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

Americans every four years have to talk themselves into something. They need to see a kind of plausibility in a candidate. The Nobel Prize committees go through the same exercise: the candidates have to be elevated to the general vicinity of the mythic in order to be worthy. But it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Gravitas Factor | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

"I'm very disappointed that President Bok wasn't able to correct the mistake that the faculty made," Dalton said yesterday. "I still feel that, based on the pattern of appointments here in the last few years, my work was tenure-worthy and that there was both political and gender...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: Bok Rejects Dalton Tenure Appeal | 3/11/1988 | See Source »

Agnes of God is a worthy and gripping play. It manages to be moving without being trite, witty without being overly jovial and intelligent without being intellectually oppressive. If occasionally it falters, it is through an excess of ambition rather than a lack of effort and skill. It is to...

Author: By Ellen J. Harvey, | Title: Second to Nun | 3/11/1988 | See Source »

But he is right. In all of film there is no happier ending than this one: an artist achieving transcendence, her audience learning for the first (and possibly last) time the transforming power of art. Maybe it is not a miracle, but it is a foretaste of the paradise for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dining Well Is the Best Revenge BABETTE'S FEAST | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

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