Word: awards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really want to send people to Chicago or running all around the award's charter. The winner receives a LatinDiploma and a stipend of nearly...
Lane said she was surprised to have been chosenfor the award because "there are so many goodpeople here...
...separated by time and culture, seem wholly unrelated. The American is a sensual naif; the Anglo-Irishman is a sophisticated puritan. Twain is happy for small favors; Shaw is ungrateful for major rewards. Presented with the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, Shaw informs the Royal Swedish Academy that their award is a "lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety." Shaw's dramas brim with advocates of free thought and liberal policy, but his correspondence reveals him as a fool of the new totalitarians. Adolf Hitler is a "wonderful preacher of everything that is right...
...Africa, 1963. Shawn Slovo's semi-autobiographical script sketches a poignant dilemma: a crusading career woman (Barbara Hershey) whose cause takes precedence over motherhood. The film, though a bit of a plod, earned a thrilling reception at the festival. It took the Special Jury Prize (second place) and an award for three of its actresses, including Hershey, the first performer to win Cannes laurels in consecutive years...
Together the two requests touch on most of Wright's questionable financial dealings. These include his intervention with Anwar Sadat on behalf of a businessman friend seeking oil rights in Egypt and similar intervention at the Interior Department to influence the award of gas leases to a company in which Wright had a $15,000 investment. Wright is said to have sought special help for a savings and loan in Texas headed by one of his largest fund raisers. A recent allegation concerns 55% book royalties (10% to 15% is standard) that Wright has received for a cut-and-paste...