Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet Government is almost certain to keep Nobel Prize winner Boris Pasternak from accepting his award, the English translator of Doctor Zhivago asserted yesterday...
...method of punishment would be to allow Pasternak to make the trip, receive the award, and then just refuse the author re-entrance into the Soviet Union. There could be little western indignation to this action, since it is comparable to the United States' treatment of Charlie Chaplin, Hayward observed. But to exile Pasternak would break a tradition established with Trotsky's demise, and more defamation of the Russian world might result from Pasternak's work...
Pasternak's work was recently denounced by Pravda and its author was advised to refuse the proffered award. There has been no official Soviet exhortation that the writer denounce the novel himself, as he was nearly pressured into doing in a letter to an Italian publisher several years ago, when the book was first set up to be printed...
...Award of a $270,000 federal grant to the University, to enable secondary school teachers to study here next year, was announced Saturday by the National Science Foundation...
Spencer Tracy is a man of many moods, and he is rich and famous enough to indulge them-even while the cameras are rolling. In one of two new pictures he worked hard and gave a performance that may well win him an Academy Award. In the other he sulked at the director and hardly bothered...