Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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STOCKHOLM, Dec. 10--Soviet poet-novelist Boris Pasternak, an absent winner, was honored along with seven attending in person at the 1958 Nobel awards ceremony Wednesay in Stockholm's Concert Hall...
Died. Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, 94, winner of the 1937 Nobel Peace Prize for "his disinterested but enthusiastic work for the League of Nations, his work for peace among nations and in helping President Wilson in organizing the League of Nations," longtime delegate to the League of Nations, Lord Privy Seal under Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, son of the Third Marquess of Salisbury, who was thrice Queen Victoria's Prime Minister; of injuries received in a fall; at Tunbridge Wells, England. Lord Cecil did as much to create the League...
...Author Nikos Kazantzakis died last year at 74, he was known to U.S. readers mostly for his novel Zorba the Greek, a flashing testament to the proposition that every minute of life should be lived to the sensuous, sensual hilt. At least twice, reportedly, he failed to win the Nobel Prize by the narrowest of margins. By taking for his own the name of Homer's poem, by adopting Odysseus as his own hero, Kazantzakis has underlined the audacity of his undertaking. His 33,333 lines measure its vastness. But the poem's real boldness lies...
...attention, all our love, whatever his nationality, his religion, his learning, his poverty, his moral misery. The other idea is. so to speak, the certainty of the deep unity of the human race. Newton said. 'Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.' " For Nobel Laureate Pire. there are still many bridges to be built for the 200,000 European refugees that his heart has as yet been unable to reach...
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. The novel that clinched the Nobel Prize for Russia's greatest living man of letters, since forced by the Soviet's brain-distrusters to reject the award...