Word: aspens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Swedes need backstopping, and last week a U.S. contender was announced by Colorado's Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. Next spring the institute will launch a Nobel rival called the Aspen Award-a $30,000 prize to the one person in the world who "each year makes the greatest contribution to the humanities...
...Aspen Institute, a 7,800-ft. aerie in the Rockies west of Denver, is a nonprofit resort for the mind-and-muscle renewal of U.S. leaders in business, labor and government. It is the brain child of the late Chicago industrialist Walter Paepcke, creator of Container Corp. and inspirer of its "Great Ideas of Western Man" advertisements. Now chaired and cheered by Southwest Banker-Rancher Robert O. Anderson, the institute has just elected a renowned resident president: Alvin C. Eurich, head of the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Advancement of Education, and inventor of the Aspen Award...
...Anyone can make a nomination" for the Aspen Award, says Eurich, and candidates may be in any humanistic field, such as philosophy or history, as well as literature. Final selection will be made by such eminences as William DeVane, longtime dean of Yale College, Henry Allen Moe, veteran dispenser of Guggenheim fellowships, and Lord Franks, former British Ambassador to the U.S., now provost of Oxford's Worcester College. The goal: "To recognize those creative persons who are contributing most to the clarification of the individual's role and his relationship to society...
...rugged, remote northwest corner of Montana, the Yaak River Valley is a picture postcard of some yesteryear. Moose muse among the willows. Elk graze on the slopes. White-tailed deer browse in the bottom land. Deep among the whispering pine and the hemlock, among the silver aspen and birch, the bears dig into windfalls for grubs. Rainbow trout, cutthroat and whitefish tumble in Beetle and Winkum Creeks...
...Opera Star Eleanor Steber and the renowned teacher of Van Cliburn, Rosina Lhevinne. By encouraging the festivaliant to start the day with a brisk half-hour hike up the Roaring Fork or Castle Creek for a couple of hours of trout fishing in crystalline, pine-shaded streams, Aspen fosters one of the great classic ideals: Mens sana in corpore sano...