Word: award
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...award citation stresses Pasternak's "achievement . . . in the great Russian epic tradition...
...award "puts the Russian authorities in a spot," Zbiegniew Brzezinski, assistant professor of Government, said yesterday. "If they do not allow Pasternak to receive the prize in the West, they will underscore restrictions on intellectuals in Russia...
...Party-line critics railed that Hlasko was a "cynic and demoralizer," but a poll of Polish youth named him their favorite writer. Last year his novel, The Eighth Day of the Week, which dealt with the homelessness of a pair of Warsaw lovers, won Poland's highest literary award, though the Polish-West German movie made from the book was banned in his homeland...
Logan, who was given the annual creative Achievement Award of the conference, was hailed as "a titan of our theatre, whose courage, craftsmanship, and creativity have immeasurably enriched the scope and texture of the American stage...
Edouard Morot, Sr., the cultural counsellor of the French Embassy, will make the award...