Word: medal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...something a little different took place last week. Men and women who rarely asked for anything but to be able to bring beauty and understanding to America were invited in and honored. Of the twelve recipients of the National Medal of Arts, six were unable to attend, but their daughters, sons, cousins and friends stepped up for them. Their achievements had preceded them long ago. The recipients were predominantly creators: Contralto Marian Anderson, Filmmaker Frank Capra, Composer Aaron Copland, Painter Willem de Kooning, Choreographer Agnes de Mille, Actress Eva Le Gallienne, Folklorist Alan Lomax, Critic Lewis Mumford and Novelist Eudora...
...addition, Deland served as Alumni Association Director and Chairman of the Harvard College Fund and in 1982 received the Harvard Medal for extraordinary service to the University...
This became the tenor of the track meet. Sprinter Carl Lewis, the quadruple gold medal man of 1984, said, "The Russians just cheat." Reminded that it was a Jamaican from Canada (Ben Johnson) who dusted him in the 100 -- for the second time this year, incidentally -- Lewis reasoned, "They'll try to help anyone beat us." When a confusion of 1,500-meter heats turned Steve Scott's silver to bronze, he grumped, "It's an asinine way to do things, but that's the Soviet Union." For welcome counterbalance, Regal Hurdler Edwin Moses extended his nine-year winning streak...
...Carmel, Calif., Marine Sergeant Tom Highway and just plain Clint Eastwood, he is far too busy acting, directing, producing and running a town to take any flak. Not even from the U.S. Army. Seems that in his latest film, Heartbreak Ridge, he plays a lifer who won a medal in a bloody Korean War battle but who is now going through some rough times both in and out of the service. The Army refused to cooperate with the production because of script problems, so Eastwood sold it to the Marines. When Army veterans complained, the star remained above the battle...
...awarded the Cole Prize of the American Mathematics Society in 1944, and in 1965 received the National Medal of Science from President Lyndon Johnson. He was awarded honorary degrees from Holy Cross in 1959, Brandeis in 1965, and Purdue in 1974. In 1981, he received an honorary degree from Harvard and in the same year, received the Wolf Prize from the Wolf Foundation in Israel...