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Harvard today awarded honorary doctorates to two women and five men, including MIT President Jerome B. Wiesner, novelist Ralph Ellison, world renowned cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, and opera star Beverly Sills...
...Ellison, who received a Doctor of Letters, is best known for his novel Invisible Man. The book details the odyssey of a Southern black who moves North in an attempt to find freedom and instead finds oppression rooted in the structure of American society. The book won the National Book Award and the National Newspaper Publishers Russwurm Award, as well as wide critical acclaim...
...Ellison received the Medal of Freedom--the nation's highest civilian honor--from President Johnson. He has collected a number of other honoraria, including the Chevalier de l'Ordre Arts et Letters of France, honorary degrees from eight institutions, and several fellowships...
...difficult to find a pure situation in America," Ellison said, and when someone says that something is culturally pure, "we are usually dealing with historical and cultural ignorance...
...People who have defined the essence of the American experience have transcended racism and bias...and defined the world in turbulent transition," Ellison said, referring to modern American writers...