Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...abortions. Unwed Heroines. Admittedly, it is a Christian virtue to show kindness and tolerance to unwed mothers, but in Sweden they are practically heroines. Not long ago an unwed mother became a candidate for the Lucia Crown, an annual beauty award based on the legend of St. Lucia, who had her eyes gouged out for defending her chastity against a Roman centurion. When the judges questioned her qualifications and refused to let her compete, the young mother received bales of encouraging letters and the judges were roundly blasted. The sex education given in public schools would make even the most...
...color shots which won the picture an Academy Award for the best foreign film of 1954 and a Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival were designed by Teinosuke Kinugasa, the director, and Sanzo Wada, his color adviser. They posed each seene with the care of the Japanese artist who spends hours arranging a few leaves and a flower into a composition of harmony and meaning. Whether the camera peers out between the spokes of a wheel at a moment of battle, or whether it regards the almost abstract lines of Japanese architecture, the eye always has enough time...
Music Clubs prize for a string quartet. In 1953, Ramiro switched to the University of Southern California, the next semester won a tuition scholarship, the Harvey Gaul Prize, Philadelphia's Eurydice Chorus award and a $500 BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) prize for a woodwind trio. He also set to work on an orchestral piece called Sinfonia Sacra, submitted it to the annual George Gershwin Memorial Contest. The judges: Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, Musicologist Carleton Sprague Smith, Composers Aaron Copland, Morton Gould and Peter Mennin...
...happily collected his prize-including, in addition to the coveted Philharmonic performance, $1,000 and an all-expenses-paid trip to New York. Already working out for his next bout, he is writing an orchestral work that he intends to submit for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra award...
...annual debate will take place in Sanders Theatre on May 13, and the University team will argue the negative position. On May 10, the teams will compete against each other in a practice match. The two best debaters will receive the Coolidge Prize, an annual award, which includes $175 for each winner...