Word: lundkvist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critics of this slow-motion approach warn that a broad-based environmental emergency may already exist. Said Swedish Minister for the Environment Svante Lundkvist: "We know enough to take action now. We must act before it is too late...
Right, but still incorrect. With traditional quirkiness, the Swedish Academy last week bestowed the Nobel laurel (and approximately $193,000) on English Novelist William Golding. The decision dumbfounded nearly everybody and drove one of the 18 academy members into an unprecedented public complaint. Artur Lundkvist, 77, called the selection of Golding a "coup" and described the new laureate as "decent but hardly in the Nobel Prize class." Lars Gyllensten, permanent secretary of the academy, countered this objection by saying Lundkvist has "the soul of a magpie" and then announced, a day later, that the maverick "has beaten a retreat...
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