Word: awarded
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...advice worked well, and Caine is proud that he has made it the hard way. "I'd go back to the theater," he says, "but not yet. I've had art up to my eyebrows and I never made a penny. Never even got a bloody television award." For compensation there is $500,000 per picture-plus a small town house near Marble Arch that may soon give way to a large town house...
Rejoice, perhaps. Last week was published a superb volume by a member of our generation. James Tate, 23, is the Yale Younger Poet for 1967, "one of the youngest" to receive that award, as his editors point out. He is unmistakably the best winner in at least five years, since Alan Dugan; and the Yale award itself, I would argue, is the most significant of our domestic awards, incapable of the antiquarianism to which Pulitzer judges seem so prone, and also (under Dudley Witts's lone and brilliant editorship) unthreatened by the coterie pressures and needs to compromise that seem...
...easy. B.U. is not number one by any coincidence. Goalie Wayne Ryan was co-winner of the most valuable player award at the Arena Tournament...
...student to fill the gap between what Reagan's budget can provide for and what those 10,000 extra students will need. But by his own figuring this will make up only part of the difference. The deficit will be even wider if Reagan fulfills his promise to award scholarships to all students who can't meet the tuition...
...Tapering Off. A frequent commuter to Washington, Gardner served as consultant to a tureen-full of alphabetized Government agencies, won the Air Force's Exceptional Service medal, its highest civilian award, for his advisory work. As chairman of the Educational Panel of the Rockefeller Broth ers Special Studies Project, he wrote a report whose title was later to become a catch phrase of the early '60s: "The Pursuit of Excellence." He served on education task forces for Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, played a major role in drafting the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. That...