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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...award recognizes work done in 1960, before Pound began obtaining data 10 per cent below that predicted by Einstein. Had these figures been correct, they would have cast doubt on the validity of the relativity theory. But Pound eliminated the discrepancy by refining his equipment, and confirmed the equivalency principle with increased accuracy--to within 0.0003 per cent of predictions...
...simple expedient of picking top poets and giving them a useful chunk of cash, the Bollingen Prize in Poetry has established itself in the relatively short span of 16 years as probably the most highly regarded of U.S. literary awards. Since 1948, when a distinguished jury stirred a furor by awarding the initial prize to Ezra Pound,* the list of Bollingen winners has amounted to a virtual roll call of U.S. poetic merit. Among them: Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, W. H. Auden, Conrad Aiken, William Carlos Williams, Theodore Roethke. After the 1962 award to Robert Frost, the frequency...
...wrote and tore up three plays before finding herself with A Raisin in the Sun, a refreshingly honest, wryly humorous study of big-city tenement life that showed Negroes as all-too-human beings instead of ranting symbols of oppression, winning her the 1959 New York Drama Critics Circle Award and earning some $300,000 in movie rights; of cancer; in Manhattan. Her second play, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, which examined Greenwich Village's demimonde, opened last October just before she was hospitalized, closed the day after her death...
Died. Virgil Blossom, 58, school superintendent of Little Rock, Ark., during the 1957 integration crisis, who won the city's 1955 Man of the Year award for his "Blossom Plan" for peaceful integration (a little at a time over a seven-year period), but ran afoul of Governor Orval Faubus when he tried to implement it, was later forced from his job and his state when he became a target for both sides in the struggle: of a heart attack; in San Antonio, where he had been school superintendent since...
...Have Not" (1944) is less a movie adaptation of the Hemingway novel than a Western Hemisphere version of "Casablanca." Prevented by "diplomatic censorship" from sticking more closely to the book, producer-director Howard Hawkes evidently decided to capitalize on the tremendous popularity of the previous year's Academy Award Winner...