Word: conquistadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jacobins & Joyce. The Harvard professor's explorations know neither time nor place, nor government nor business contract. He has written books on Thucydides. the rise of cities, on the Jacobins, Joyce, and juvenile delinquents. He has composed Pulitzer Prizewinning poems (The Conquistador by Archibald Mac-Leish) and music (Symphony No. 3 by Walter Piston). In the person of Harlow Shapley, he has given a new view of the geography of the universe, and through Paul Mangelsdorf, he has helped develop hybrid corn. Of Harvard's scientists, six have won Nobel Prizes.* Its chemists, biologists, and physicians have invented...
MacLeish won a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for his book of poetry entitled "Conquistador." He served as librarian of Congress in the years from 1939 to 1944, and also worked on a number of federal commissions and agencies before taking the position as librarian of Congress...
...little more than a year, Balboa, a wise, courageous and likable conquistador in Mrs. Romoli's version of history, had been confirmed as governor of the colony. He set out to explore, and to make friends with the Cueva Indians. That the Cuevans may have been worth making friends with is suggested in contemporary descriptions of them. An affable, cigar-smoking race, the Cuevans were also uncommonly handsome, and their women "displayed unexpected aspects of sophistication. Smallish, large-eyed with thick and often wavy hair, they had beautiful narrow bodies of which they were inordinately proud . . . They took extraordinary...
With all his command of water and of words, Balboa was not able to stave off a rival conquistador named Pedro Arias Dávila. Pedrarias, as he was better known, displaced him as governor of Darién, and despite all Balboa's diplomacy (including marriage with Pedrarias' daughter), had his predecessor's head chopped off and stuck on a pole in the village square...
...Archibald MacLeish, for his Collected Poems, 1917-1952, his second Pulitzer. (His first, in 1933, was for Conquistador.) The Pulitzer committee gave no award for music...