Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hearkened in blank amazement as Laborite Morgan Jones, who had gone to the House distraught from the sick bed of his dying daughter, hurled wildly at British Nobel Peaceman Sir Austen Chamberlain the charge that "By his speeches he encouraged the high-handed policy of Japan in Manchuria...
Naming three Nobel prizewinners in physics last week, the Swedish Academy of Science paid tribute to the ability of young men and the importance of small things. Oldest of the three prizemen is Dr. Erwin Schrodinger, 46, who shares this year's award with Dr. Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac. Dr. Dirac is only 31, as is Dr. Werner Heisenberg, to whom went the belated 1932 award.* All three have been busy prying into the unimaginably small interior of the atom...
Awarding a Nobel Prize, especially in literature, is a ticklish business. Only international prize of its kind, its bestowal on any world-citizen is regarded as a triumph for that citizen's country. Whether or not the Committee deals out its favors impartially, it obviously tries to rotate them. Last year the Nobel Prize in Literature went to England (the late John Galsworthy), the year before to Sweden (Erik Axel Karlfeldt), year before that to the U. S. (Sinclair Lewis). This year for the first time it went to a man without a country...
Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin, 1933 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, is a 63-year-old White Russian, self-exiled from Russia 16 years ago, now living with his 20-year-old adopted daughter in a modest villa at Grasse, France. Writer of the old school, called "the last heir to the Russian realist tradition of the 19th Century," Bunin has long had a big reputation in Russia, where he won the Pushkin prize for poetry (1890), was an honorary member (with Maxim Gorki and the late great Anton Chekhov) of the exclusive Academy of St. Petersburg. Enthusiastic Russians rank Bunin with...
Alone among Russian émigré writers, who have generally lost both prestige and potency after being cut off from their native country, Author Bunin has tuned his exile's harp with increasing skill, today stands head & shoulders above other White Russian writers. Unlike the Pulitzer, the Nobel Prize is never awarded for any particular book; like his predecessors, Bunin is being honored for cumulative excellence. His best-known book is the volume of short stories, The Gentleman from San Francisco, in which the title-story is a grotesque fantasy of a rich American who voyages to Europe...