Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know history"; and last June, when accepting the American Institute of Architects' gold medal, he gave a kind of official blessing to it: old Bernini patting heads in the studio. "We stand at an enormous watershed," he remarked. "We stand at a place where maybe we haven't stood for 50 years, and that is a shift in sensibility so revolutionary that it is hard to grasp because we are right in the middle of it. It is the watershed between what we have all been brought up with as the Modern, and something new, uncharted, uncertain and absolutely delightful...
Unmoved, Begin flew to the Norwegian capital late last week to receive his commemorative gold medal from Mrs. Aage Lionaes, head of the peace prize committee, in the high-walled medieval Akershus. In his acceptance speech, Begin quoted the prophets Isaiah and Micah ("And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. . ."). He then rhetorically posed an issue that bedevils everyone concerned with the 30-year-old Middle East struggle: "not whether, but when this vision [of peace] will become a reality." Begin did not give a definite answer. Instead, he acknowledged an intellectual debt...
...then a $15,000 Porsche, before taking a leave of absence to hitchhike through the U.S. After joining the fire department in 1973, he was cited for heroism for rescuing a mother and her child from the 17th floor of a burning building. He was to have received the medal last week...
Curry, 29, an Englishman who won the gold medal for men's figure skating at the 1976 Olympics, was inevitably offered high-paying jobs by various ice shows. He turned them all down to pursue his own vision. "I don't like to criticize them," he told a reporter, "but I feel they are an antiquated form of entertainment. When I go to see ice shows, I don't actually see much skating. What I see is a lot of spectacle, a lot of camouflage, a lot of substitution, and very little of the real thing." What...
...Francisco Opera Medal was fashioned, quite appropriately, of Tiffany gold, in honor of Kurt Adler's 50 years in the opera business and 25 years as general director of the San Francisco company. And it came with a bonus: a benefit soirée at up to $500 a head, with a gaggle of golden-throated divas to sing his praises, among them Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Dorothy Kirsten, Bidú Sayāo and Licia Albanese. Leontyne Price declared that her former mentor is still the "guiding figure" in her career. Also a tough perfectionist. "Just when you think Adler...