Word: morrison
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Nearly everyone, including the author, was startled last week when the Swedish Academy awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature to the American novelist Toni Morrison. For one thing, the academy has shown a fondness for spreading the prize around geopolitically and linguistically; because the last two winners -- Nadine Gordimer in 1991 and Derek Walcott a year ago -- write in English, this year's winner figured to be one who works in another language. For another, the U.S. authors rumored to be in contention for the prize were Thomas Pynchon and Joyce Carol Oates; Morrison's name did not appear...
...pair led Harvard officers Dennis Maloney and Maureen Morrison on a high-speed chase in a stolen Oldsmobile through the Medical School area in Roxbury early Monday morning, Rooney said...
After hearing a radio transmission about thetwo "smash and grab" incidents around 4 a.m.Monday, Maloney and Morrison observed the twosuspects sitting in a the white Oldsmobile onParker St. in Roxbury, Rooney said. The officersthen activated their lights and sirens, and theOldsmobile pulled over...
...never read any Toni Morrison, and you must never tell anyone that." The statement wasn't made off the record, but we thought we'd give the scholar a break...
However, it seems that one member of the literati is a little behind on the reading list. When a Crimson reporter asked this person about Morrison's honor, she got the following response...