Word: award
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laws, feuded with the Roman Catholic Church by stating that Yugoslavia's Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac was a "quisling collaborator of Hitler." Indeed, after World War II, The Churchman was accused of leaning so far left that in 1948 George C. Marshall felt compelled to refuse its Good Will Award...
This is the first time that all three prizes--each carrying a $4000 award--have been given for books published by the same company...
...never seen six hours rush by so fast," quipped Bob Hope. He had a point. Last week's Academy Award ceremonies took 21 hours, but they seemed twice as turgid and ten times as tasteless...
...Tepid repartee was met with jittery tittering in the audience; microphones and material failed regularly; lack of distinction was the order of the night. Hardly anyone could quarrel with Rod Steiger's Oscar for best actor in In the Heat of the Night, but Katharine Hepburn's award for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner seemed simply a sentimental tribute to a career more remarkable than her latest performance. George Kennedy's recognition as best supporting actor in Cool Hand Luke was long overdue. But naming Estelle Parsons best supporting actress for Bonnie and Clyde...
Mike Nichols has had an unbroken string of hits-seven plays and two films -and it was no surprise when he was voted best director. Yet the movie he won it for-The Graduate-received not one other award. The best picture was In the Heat of the Night, whose fine if somewhat melodramatic treat ment of racial conflict seemed stirringly topical (the selection, of course, was made long before the King assassination); with five Oscars it was the most honored film of the year. One of the weakest choices involved the year's other major race picture, Guess...