Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's undirected population explosion, concentrated among have-not peoples, hardly favors the groups "better fitted to direct man's future biological and cultural development," said Nobel Prizewinner George W. Beadle (TiME, July 14) at a Washington forum. Sure that men now have the skill if not the wisdom for "directing our own evolutionary futures." Geneticist Beadle raised an ominous question: "Can we go on indefinitely defending as a fundamental freedom the right of individuals to determine how many children they will bear, without regard to the biological or cultural consequences...
...Nobel Prizewinner Harold Urey of the University of California at La Jolla, another leading moon authority, agrees with Kuiper about there being lava on much of the moon's surface, but he does not think that it welled out of a molten interior. Instead, he contends, it was formed on the spot by the energy of great meteors that hit the moon and melted both themselves and the local lunar rock. He thinks that the present surface material may be something like sand or gravel...
...lawyer, and a chance to appeal the verdict. It cuts prison sentences for "ordinary" crimes from 25 to 10 years, and to 15 years for exceptionally severe offenses. It raises the age of criminal responsibility from 14 to 16. It scraps such punishments as exile abroad, recently proposed for Nobel Novelist Boris Pasternak. But capital punishment stays on the books, and repeaters or hardened criminals lose all rights to early parole. Death by shooting continues for treason (including "flight abroad or refusal to return to the U.S.S.R. from abroad...
...Polish friends: "I will be made to do manual labor. This will ruin my hands. My playing will be finished." He also learned that his father, a distinguished translator of French classics, had already been arrested in Shanghai on the charge of "translating without authorization" the works of Nobel Prizewinner Remain Rolland...
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. The book without a country that honors all humanity, by the great Russian poet who won 1958's Nobel Prize but was forced to refuse it by Big Brotherland...