Word: award
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ross A. McFarland, technical director of the Center, announced yesterday the award of the first Guggenheim fellowship in the Center to Dr. Thomas O. Nevison...
Just as the Hungarian Freedom Fighter received TIME'S Man of the Year award last year, so should the brave Negroes of Little Rock be selected for this year's title...
...Albert Camus. Last week the 43-year-old novelist, essayist, playwright, philosopher, editor and Resistance leader was decorated with literature's Legion of Honor, the 1957 Nobel prize, for "clearsighted earnestness which illuminates the problems of the human conscience of our times." Not since Rudyard Kipling received the award in 1907 at the age of 41 had it been granted to so young...
...chain-smoked cigarettes, embraced old Resistance buddies and held gracious court for Paris literati at his publisher's reception, Albert Camus admitted generously that he thought the award should have gone to André Malraux, "my early mentor." Even as he chatted, he inadvertently revealed the major qualities that won him the award−an unflagging humanism coupled with an unremitting skepticism. Pressed to make "one wish in the name of humanity," Camus unhesitatingly answered, "Freedom." Asked about his enemies, he replied with a shrewd Gallic twinkle: "One has to know how to make people forgive success...
...Dated. In Montgomery, Ala., the Rotary Club withheld the one-year perfect-attendance award from Dr. Gordon King when he failed to show up at the award meeting...