Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nobel Prizewinner Francois Mauriac, author of close to 60 books: "Our policy at present yields only immobility and rottenness. What is there to say of this unending swirl of opinions around the European army, on which, at Bermuda, our allies watched the two French corks dancing? The crimes of personal life can be redeemed and erased, but not those of political life. Because it never stops, because it develops unceasingly in all directions and on all levels, history does not pardon the consequences of a deed once done nor does it pardon our evasions and our refusals...
...true representatives-including the men who invented the iron lung, those on whose researches in atomic energy ... in radar and sonar ... the late military effort so largely depended; Dr. Cohn and his fractionation of blood and all the lives saved because of his researches ... or Harvard's six Nobel Prizewinners; and most important perhaps of all, the humanists whose efforts [bring] us into fresh awareness of new reaches of the human spirit? Are these men . . . not to count in the scales against the others...
Died. Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, 85, Nobel Prizewinning physicist (1923), longtime head of California Institute of Technology (1921-46); in San Marino, Calif. Physicist Millikan isolated the electron and measured its charge (for which he got the Nobel Prize), investigated the character and origin of cosmic rays. Deeply religious, he never doubted that "the Creator is still...
King Gustaf and Queen Louise of Sweden rose to their feet in Stockholm to honor five of this year's winners of the Nobel Prizes: The U.S.'s Fritz Lipmann, Britain's Hans Adolf Krebs (both for medicine), Germany's Hermann Staudinger (chemistry), The Netherlands' Fritz Zernike and Britain's Sir Winston Churchill (literature), who was represented by his wife, Lady Churchill. In Oslo, Norway, the U.S.'s General George Catlett Marshall received the Nobel Peace Prize. As he rose, some Communist hecklers jeered, catcalled and sent a sheaf of propaganda leaflets flying...
...richest, most exuberant novel of the year came from Greece, the work of 68-year-old Nikos Kazantzakis, a top candidate for 1952's Nobel Prize. His Zorba the Greek had a picaresque hero who, almost alone in the fiction of 1953, communicated the conviction that it is wonderful to be alive. By comparison, the chest-beating hero of Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March was a neurotic wise guy-though Augie did better than Zorba in the bookstores...