Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...critics realized on second thought, the Nobel Prize went to Pearl Buck only partly for The Good Earth. The democratic-minded Swedish Academy was also giving an accolade to Pearl Buck's sympathy for the Chinese common people, and to her telling attacks, in her magazine articles, on the dictators. The influence of her writing far transcends its importance as literature...
...PATRIOT - Pearl S. Buck - John...
...consequence of winning the Nobel Prize for Literature is that the prizewinner's next books come in for much severer criticism. If any Nobel Prizewinner stands to escape such hardening of the public heart, it is Pearl Buck. With her usual unpretentious candor, she was the first to admit that the Nobel Prize award honored her beyond her deserts. "That's ridiculous," she said when she heard the news. "It should have gone to Dreiser...
...such standards, The Patriot ranks with her best work. Aiming at twice the scope of The Good Earth, Pearl Buck this time pays tribute to the common people of Japan as well as China...
...between nine and ten o'clock in order to attend the annual meeting on the choice of a field of concentration. At the meeting, which will be held in the New Lecture Hall. Dean A. C. Hanford will preside, and 'Professor Roscoe Found and Assistant Professor Paul H. Buck will address the class...