Word: nobeled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...NOBEL PRIZE TREASURY (612 pp.)-Edited by Marshall McClintock - Doubleday...
...books should encourage a beginning writer as much as this one. An anthology of the best writing of the 42 Nobel Prizewinners*-from 1901 through 1947- should theoretically be a cross section of the 20th Century's best world literature. But the fact is, these masterpieces of the recent past, placed together in one compact volume, seem extremely uneven. This book contains such material as Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms, Yeats's The Land of Heart's Desire, excerpts from André Gide's Journals. It contains masterpieces like Ivan Bunin...
...makes most other contemporary prose seem sloppy. Gide has suffered more harsh cuffs from critics and more indifference from the reading public than any other major writer of his time. Now, at 78, he is France's literary lion, a member of the Royal Academy since 1924, a Nobel Prizewinner (1947). In many quarters he is regarded as the world's greatest living man of letters...
...PHILADELPHIA, Clarence E. Pickett and the American Friends Service Committee laid plans for spending the Quakers' $20,000 share of the Nobel Peace Prize (TIME, Nov. 10) to improve relations between Russia and the U.S.-probably by methods suggested by a recent series of Quaker-sponsored newspaper ads: immediate peace talks, strengthening of the U.N., and "a new effort to arrange the exchange of students, writers, religious leaders and industrial workers...
Professor Bridgman, the author of "The Logic of Modern Physics," was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1946 for his research in high pressure phenomena. Professor Stouffer has done extensive work in the methods of quantitative sociology for the government and the Army...