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...given what might be called an "intellectual memorial" by our University. The aesthetic caliber of the program was awesome, executed mainly by empathetically skillful readers of selections from DuBois' great American text--The Souls of Black Folk--especially the readings by Prof. Anthony Appiah, Dean Jeremy Knowles, and the Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka...
...disaster," said Sheldon L. Glashow, Higgins professor of physics and Nobel Physics Prize recipient. "It means that 50 years of triumphant research into the fundamental nature of matter in this country has ended...
Novelist Toni Morrison wins the Nobel Prize...
Nearly everyone, including the author, was startled last week when the Swedish Academy awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature to the American novelist Toni Morrison. For one thing, the academy has shown a fondness for spreading the prize around geopolitically and linguistically; because the last two winners -- Nadine Gordimer in 1991 and Derek Walcott a year ago -- write in English, this year's winner figured to be one who works in another language. For another, the U.S. authors rumored to be in contention for the prize were Thomas Pynchon and Joyce Carol Oates; Morrison's name did not appear...
...such reservations should attend Morrison's Nobel. The Swedish Academy sometimes works in mysterious ways, but it cannot be lobbied. It made an honorable, correct choice in Morrison, but probably for at least one wrong reason. In the statement explaining Morrison's selection, the academy wrote, in part, "She delves into the language itself, a language she wants to liberate from the fetters of race." This is wrong, as have been the many critics over the years who have praised Morrison for "transcending" the ( blackness of her characters and bestowing on them an abstract universality that everyone can understand...