Word: honorably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recognition of this, the American Council for Nationalities Service last week presented the London-born conductor with its Golden Door Award, given annually to a foreign-born citizen who has made significant contributions to U.S. cultural life. In accepting the honor, Stoky's thoughts characteristically turned to youth. "There is rising a young generation," he said, "with which I am in touch, and they're seeing things in a new way." Then by way of proof, he led his youthful American Symphony Orchestra in a Mozart serenade...
...judge, but simply because of his name. To be a Cohn-or a Cohen, Kohn, Kahn, Coen, Cahn, Kahane, Kagan or even Katz-is to be a descendant of Moses' brother Aaron and his sons, who were the first hereditary kohanim (priests) of Israel. The honor entails for Orthodox Jews a long and specific set of responsibilities...
...Honoré de Balzac did not look or act like a writer, and the literary assessors of his time declined to treat him as one. He was short, fat, gap-toothed, messy, and, according to one contemporary, had "the face of a pantler, the general look of a cobbler, the girth of a barrelmaker, the manners of a hatter." Estimates of his work were hardly more flattering: Sainte-Beuve dismissed his style as "prolix and formless, slack." The author of La Comédie Humaine, that panorama of post-revolutionary France, died up to his chins in debt...
Besides Mayer and Babe, HDC members participating in the project include Peter A. Jaszi '68, a member of the HDC executive committee who will act as producer, Honor, Moore '67, president of the HDC, and Francine L. Stone '68' secretary of the club...
...Lyons Award was created in 1964 in honor of Louis M. Lyons, who retired that year after serving as the Nieman curator for 25 of the 29 years of the Foundation's existence. Minor was selected from nominations submitted by Nieman alumni...