Word: elliott
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...journalistic categories and seven others in the arts, and are on their way home after lunch. Thus was Cooke's story chosen. The Pulitzer Prize remains the highest honor in newspaper journalism, but its selection process is badly in need of repair. One reform is suggested by Osborn Elliott, dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism: Let no editor "get off the hook by oversubmitting" let editors narrow their own entries, "and face their own internal politics more directly." For the Washington Post, Ombudsman Green had a harsher recommendation: "The scramble for journalistic prizes is poisonous . . .Maybe...
...Prize board was so impressed with Cooke's work that it gave her the award in another category, overturning the feature writing jury's choice of Teresa Carpenter of the Village Voice, who was belatedly given the honor after the fraud was discovered. Says Board Member Osborn Elliott, dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism: "It was a very dramatic telling and a moving piece. I figured that the Post had verified it." It was the first known fakery in the 64-year history of the Pulitzer Prizes...
...jamming traffic into town. Willis Corbett, the N.R.A. regional representative, said such a bill was "dangerous." At a public hearing on a New Jersey bill that would ban handguns, held the day after Reagan was shot, 600 gun enthusiasts packed the hearing room. Explains one N.R.A. field representative, Lewis Elliott of Colorado: "Ours is a grassroots effort. Instead of paying a lobbyist, we just use the people...
...String Quartets, generally acknowledged as the most important works in the genre since Beethoven's, the dense, intricate writing challenged the minds, ears and fingers of string players and set a new standard of formal complexity that opened the way for such works as the quartets of Elliott Carter. The Mikrokosmos, 153 short piano studies of increasing difficulty, is an indispensable introduction to 20th century compositional and pianistic techniques...
DIED. James ("Jumbo") Elliott, 66, track and field coach at Villanova since 1935 who led the Wildcats to eight National Collegiate championships and coached 28 Olympians including five gold medalists; of a heart attack; in Juno Beach...