Word: award
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Synanon cure for drug addiction (Synanon: The Tunnel Back) have been widely praised for telling it like it is. Yablonsky could tell it, because he lived with the people he studied-and his classroom presentation at San Fernando Valley State College this month earned him an "outstanding teacher" award over 9,000 of his colleagues in the California state colleges. Shortly before he won the award, however, Yablonsky-who is now studying the hippie movement-was subpoenaed to testify at the marijuana trial of a friendly flower child. On the stand, Yablonsky pleaded possible self-incrimination and refused to answer...
...Last week, during his NBC Christmas TV special, Hope played a Santa Claus who gets arrested by Patrolman Phil Silvers for parking on a Los Angeles freeway-hardly a format for getting off cracks about public figures. He did it anyway, by exhibiting gifts from his bag: a special award from the Optimists Club for Harold Stassen; a book of one-syllable words for William F. Buckley Jr.; an electric blanket for Frank Sinatra; a surfboard for General de Gaulle, to be used as a tongue depressor...
...social commentator, Hope dares more than anyone else in show business to throw a pie in the industry's face. As emcee at the Oscar award ceremonies one year, he observed that "this is the night when war and politics are forgotten...
...Sorrowful Jones, My Favorite Brunette-had established him as Hollywood's top box-office draw. The next year, he decided to get into TV "before Milton Berle uses up all my material." NBC paid him $40,000 for his first special. That same year, he won a Peabody Award for The Quick and the Dead, a four-part radio documentary on atomic energy, produced by Fred Friendly...
...class of '66 had taken a record-breaking 10 scholarships the year before and many University officials speculated that pressure was being put on the Rhodes Committees to distribute the award among other institutions and not to allow Harvard to dominate the competition...