Word: award
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...that turn out to be meteors, burning out and falling below the horizon. Born in Sofia, he studied under Bulgaria's foremost composer, Pantcho Vladigerov, and made his way to Manhattan's Juilliard School by way of Turkey and Israel. In 1948 he won the prestigious Leventritt award. His career was launched in a blaze of critical superlatives. But over the years, instead of flourishing on the concert circuit, he faded. In 1957 he disappeared from...
...award will be presented to Gatto at the annual dinner of the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston on January 18 at the Sheraton-Plaza in Boston...
Twenty-one football players were nominated this year for the 23rd annual award...
...Gatto, Harvard's 1968 football captain and all-time rushing leader, yesterday became the first Crimson player ever to receive the much-coveted Nils V. Nelson national award for sportsmanship...
...over twenty years ago, it has been because he found his voice in the beginning. Consciously poetic, nostalgic, and detached, his most recent poems in the New Yorker echo the simplicity and sensitivity of the poems for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957, and the National Book Award for Things of This World. The quiet titles of the New Yorker poems. "In the Field" and "in a Churchyard," recall two other poems from 1947, "In a Bird Sanctuary" and "A Dutch Courtyard...