Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...City of Boston will present the annual Harleston Parker medal to Benjamin Thompson & Associates at the architectural society's annual dinner...
Benjamin Thompson, who is receiving his third Parker medal, said he is very pleased by the award. He said that his intention in designing the $3.4 million library was for it to be "functional but in the scale of the street, particularly the surrounding residential area...
...frequently mentioned as a potential Nobel prizewinner, has picked up few prizes; five of his novels have been nominated for National Book Awards, only to be ultimately passed over. Now the self-described "pleasant outsider" has landed one of the country's most distinguished prizes: the National Medal for Literature, awarded for a living American writer's total literary contribution. At his Montreux, Switzerland, home, a modest Nabokov could only say: "I think it was a very good idea to give the prize...
...shocked at antiwar students shouting down prowar speakers than at what was happening in Indochina were forgetting what was in the newspapers every day. I think I have been more concerned with the nobility of my compassion--what the English poet Jon Stallworthy called wearing suffering like a service medal--than with ending the suffering, which might have meant acting like Armstrong, or Dellinger, or at least Noam Chomsky...
...materials that earned Sendak his reputation. In 20 years, he has illustrated and/or written more than 70 books. He has won every important children's book prize in the U.S. In 1970, he became the first American illustrator ever to be awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal. Sendak's books sell by the hundreds of thousands all over the world and are read by children in Arabic, Japanese and Afrikaans...