Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best known books are "Joseph in Egypt," a monumental work as yet only partially written, and "The Magic Mountain," the novel which was instrumental in winning for its author the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. Of his other writings "Tonio Kreeger" and "Buddenbrooks" are the best known in America...
...critics realized on second thought, the Nobel Prize went to Pearl Buck only partly for The Good Earth. The democratic-minded Swedish Academy was also giving an accolade to Pearl Buck's sympathy for the Chinese common people, and to her telling attacks, in her magazine articles, on the dictators. The influence of her writing far transcends its importance as literature...
...consequence of winning the Nobel Prize for Literature is that the prizewinner's next books come in for much severer criticism. If any Nobel Prizewinner stands to escape such hardening of the public heart, it is Pearl Buck. With her usual unpretentious candor, she was the first to admit that the Nobel Prize award honored her beyond her deserts. "That's ridiculous," she said when she heard the news. "It should have gone to Dreiser...
...first employe: Robert Andrews Millikan, then 16, later a Nobel Prizewinner in physics...
...Yeats, 73, great Irish poet; of heart disease; in Roquebrune, France. A symbolist poet known to few in his youth, a leader of the Irish literary renaissance and a founder of the Abbey Theatre in his early maturity, an Irish nationalist in his middle years, Yeats also became a Nobel prizewinner (1923), a Free State Senator, and was widely accepted, in his old age, as a world figure whose poetry and prose could be measured with the greatest produced in his time. His art meanwhile changed from the youthful rhythms of The Lake Isle of Innisfree, which schoolchildren now memorize...