Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...self, few writers have inscribed more powerful images of revolt against the "absurdity" of man's fate than France's Albert Camus. Last week the 43-year-old novelist, essayist, playwright, philosopher, editor and Resistance leader was decorated with literature's Legion of Honor, the 1957 Nobel prize, for "clearsighted earnestness which illuminates the problems of the human conscience of our times." Not since Rudyard Kipling received the award in 1907 at the age of 41 had it been granted to so young...
...Nobel prizewinner told a capacity audience that four new nuclear power stations now being constructed in England will be completed by 1961. Operating on graphite gas cooled reactor systems, these stations will produce nearly 20 per cent of Britain's electrical power demands...
...Nobel Prize to Camus...
STOCKHOLM, Oct. 17--French author Albert Camus today won the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature. At 43, Camus is the youngest to receive the international prize since Rudyard Kipling was chosen...
Breaking Ranks. As Freud's fame grew and his basic ideas came to be ever more widely accepted, he collected some minor honors, but time and again influential friends failed to get him the Nobel Prize, and he soon urged them to stop chasing "the Nobel chimera." He remained fanatically convinced that he had discovered absolute truths, and excoriated the defectors from his ranks...