Word: nobels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Swedish Novelist Par Lagerkvist may be a little too much at sea himself. His mystical message does not differ much from the amoralism of a Robert Ruark or a Mickey Spillane. But since it comes from a Nobel prizewinner and is dressed up in the proper symbolism, it has already been hailed in Europe as the last word in existentialism...
...deep coma for seven weeks and clinically "died" four times in a single week. Miraculously he survived. And last week word came from Moscow that Lev Davidovich Landau, 56, had finally been released from the Neurosurgery Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. But the Nobel Prizewinner (it was awarded to him ten months after the accident) still appears unable to think in the A-then-B-then-C sequence necessary to scientific theorizing, and his colleagues fear that despite his physical recovery, he will never return to his work...
...Faculty vote kills Interim--'Nobel Experiment' Fails" wrote the Sophian on page one, and gave the experiment its last elegy on the editorial page. No reasons were given by the faculty for its decision...
With only two days remaining before the close of nominations, eight members of the Swedish Parliament recommended Martin Luther King Jr., 35, for the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. The Southern leader of the U.S. Negro's drive for integration should be considered, said the legislators, because he "had succeeded in keeping his followers to the principle of nonviolence. Without King's confirmed conviction of the justification and effectiveness of this principle, demonstrations and marches could easily have become violent and ended with the spilling of blood...
...Picks What? The $10,000 Guggenheim International Award, won by Swiss Sculptor-Painter Alberto Giacometti, is supposed to go, explains Curator Lawrence Alloway, to "the great wherever seen. When Harry Guggenheim started the whole thing in 1956, he saw the prizes as a kind of equivalent of the Nobel Prize, something that was awarded regardless of national boundaries." Alloway spent a year and a half traveling in 30 countries to choose entries for the 1964 Guggenheim International, and the jury that then picked the winners included Painter Hans Hofmann, Arnold Rüdlinger, director of the Kunsthalle in Basel...