Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civil engineer himself, he bristles with impatience at imperfection, especially in his own performance. To keep his 6-ft., 182-lb. frame in shape, Evans, 42, began jogging a few years ago, long before it became the thing to do. Last year friends gave him the "Tired Tennis Shoe Award"?a scruffy old sneaker which he proudly displays in a glass case in his office. Essentially he is a loner, and his favorite sports are those that pit a single man against nature, or against the limits of his own endurance?hiking, mountain climbing, skiing, sailing...
...self-pity and dread to time's metronome ticking away with deadly austerity. Paul Scofield profiles Laurie with meticulous care, but he cannot quite manage that sudden, sneering, swooping descent into vulgarity that Osborne demands. When Scofield has to talk about some woman giving "the golden sanitary towel award," he seems to be holding the line out at arm's length between a fastidious thumb and forefinger...
Nevertheless, at 34, Arkin has established himself as a major theatrical talent. In his Broadway debut in Enter Laughing, he played an acting student, crippled with a plethora of fright sweat and a dearth of talent. The performance earned him a Tony Award. As the suicidal intellectual in Luv, Arkin was so explosively funny that his director, Mike Nichols, called him "the best actor in America." He won an Oscar nomination for his first full-length film role: the resignedly subversive Soviet officer in The Russians Are Coming. His first straight picture, Wait Until Dark, was a Guinness-like tour...
...215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "The Shape of Films to Come." A survey of new moviemaking techniques featuring Christopher Chapman's Academy Award-winning A Place to Stand and a selection of avant-garde films shown at Montreal's Expo 67. Repeat...
TIME FOR AMERICANS (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). "White Racism and Black Education." Jonathan Kozol, schoolteacher and author of the award-winning Death at an Early Age, leads a discussion on the effects of white prejudice on Negro education, specifically in the public school system of his native Boston...