Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, will receive the 1956 Boston Arts Festival poetry award at the annual festival this June. The award, carrying a stipend of $500, is given to a contemporary poet who has made extensive contributions to the art, or has distinguished himself through a recent work...
...telegram read: "I have just received news of your award. I take the long view expressed by the 18th century poet John Wolto, who said: 'What rage for fame attends both great and small, better be damned than not mentioned...
...more realistic solution would be to abolish the distinction between national awards and other scholarships. Unlike the usual grants, existing National Scholarships now leave no $300 differential between the award and the need, a gap normally bridged either with term-time work, a loan, or summer earnings above the $300 requirement...
...award called a "Bosco" was given to June Allyson, "who, with eternally girlish homeiness, an aura of fresh-baked, deep-dish apple pie like Mother used to make, and an endless supply of tears, bravely but vainly attempts to resist the onslaught of the advancing years...
Anderson graduated magna cum laude from here in 1939. In 1954, his "Tea and Sympathy" won the New York Critics Award. He also wrote "All Summer Long" in the same year...