Word: nobels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mondays). "Russia: The Unfinished Revolution." On the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, NET Reporter Colette Shulman goes to Moscow to take a long, thoughtful look at the strong points and growing pains of the Russians. Included are talks with Poet Andrei Voznesensky, the late writer Ilya Ehrenburg, Nobel-Prizewinning Physicist Igor Tamm and Economist Alexander Birman...
...CHIMNEYS, by Nelly Sachs. At 75, Nelly Sachs, who lives in Sweden, writes in German, and was rescued from almost total obscurity by a 1966 Nobel Prize, appears as a powerful singer of the fate of the Jewish people...
...novels, ranging from biting political satires to surrealistic folklore, and been translated into 36 languages. Last year his leftist writings and political novels won him the $28,000 Lenin Peace Prize for exposing "American intervention against the Guatemalan people." Last week his whole body of work won him the Nobel Prize for Literature, carrying with it a $60,000 cash award...
...probably the best understood. Since the German biologist Franz Boll discovered that a chemical change takes place when light enters the eye, scientists have worked out a fairly complete map of the mechanics of vision. Last week Stockholm's Royal Caroline Institute, custodian of the Nobel Prize in medicine, jointly awarded the 1967 prize to three of the most important eye cartographers of the present generation: the U.S.'s George Wald and Haldan Keffer Hartline and Sweden's Ragnar Granit...
Died. Sir Norman Angell, 94, crusading pacifist and winner of the 1933 Nobel Peace Prize; of pneumonia; in Surrey, England. During half a century of writing punctuated by two world wars, Angell published more than 40 books decrying as illusory any "victory" in war and urging meaningful peace through collective security, most notably in Europe's Optical Illusion, a slim pamphlet first printed in 1909 and then, as it became the subject of a raging controversy, expanded into a book-length The Grand Illusion, which was eventually translated into 15 languages...