Word: nobels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FISH CAN SING, by Halldor Laxness. The foggy, fusty Iceland of a few generations ago, beautifully evoked by a Nobel prizewinner who loves best those fish in humankind who swim against the tide...
...Martin Luther King, Jr. requested "all those who love peace" to "combine the fervor of the civil rights movement with the peace movement." Reasoning that the war in Vietnam is morally and politically unjust, as well as inimical to Negroes' struggle for complete equality of opportunity, the Nobel Peace Prize-winner has promised to become an active participant in America's anti-war movement...
Died. Hermann Joseph Muller, 76, U.S. geneticist who won the Nobel Prize in 1946 for his 1927 experiments in which he bombarded fruit flies with X rays to produce weird mutations and demonstrated long before the atomic age the effects of radiation on genes, an outspoken scientist, most recently advocating the establishment of artificial insemination banks to store the frozen sperm of gifted men to improve the human race now and in the future; of heart disease; in Indianapolis...
...Earl Russell, now 94, presents a psychological conundrum of a similar order. Renowned mathematician, logician, philosopher and Nobel prizewinner, he writes English with all the precision and lucidity of which the language is capable. Yet for all its clarity and wit, the first volume, instantly acclaimed in England as a classic, leaves unresolved problems of character. To some, he is a crypto-mystic, to others, a heartless brain. Most recently he has become an excessively emotional organizer of peace marches who mouths anti-American propaganda drivel...
...this period that is warmly evoked by Novelist Halldor Laxness, 64, who won the 1955 Nobel Prize for such works as Independent People, a story of immemorial peasant life, and Salka Valka, a sociological study of corruption, lust and politics in an Icelandic fishing village. In most of his later novels, Laxness seems to be reliving incidents from his own past. In this book, his narrator is a boy named Alfgrirn, who was born near Reykjavik as the 20th century dawned. His mother, a young woman bound for America, had paused in Brek-kukot at the friendly cottage of Bjorn...