Word: awards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson came close enough to see the championship trophy, close enough to touch it, close enough, even, to skate over to the award table, reach down, and then not take it, but sidle away with the silver award instead...
Close enough to see how happy, how fulfilled Michigan State was in triumph. With its golden award held high. With pride...
DESPITE EDWIN MEESE III's absence tomorrow, by all indications the attorney general will grace the Harvard campus sometime this spring to pick up an award for distinguished public service from the Kennedy School of Government as part of its 50th anniversary celebration. It seems ironic that Meese would want to pick up an award from a school named for the President and attorney general who pioneered interpretations of the Constitution which Meese now attacks. But here he comes, and we wish he wouldn't, ever...
...living in Kirchstetten, helped the uprooted poet on his way to the U.S. There Brodsky became an ornament on university faculties, a familiar voice on the lecture circuit, a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and a recipient of a $208,000 MacArthur Foundation award. Such success by an outsider is cause for envy and resentment: American-born poets must struggle not only with the uncertainties of their craft but against indifference to their art. Fortunately, Brodsky is much more than another exile expected to tell ghost stories about Soviet oppression. He is a major...
...Only four more awards to Jack Valenti--so get ready," warned CoHost Robin Williams in a small jab at the head of the Motion Picture Association. Cher, whose sense of humor can only be described as epic, wore a giant feather headdress--and not a great deal more--to present one award. "As you can see," she said, "I did receive my academy booklet on how to dress as a serious actress...