Word: nobels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past five years, however, Nobel Prizewinner (1950) Russell has become ever more deeply convinced that Britain should scrap its nuclear armaments and let the Communists take over the country, if necessary, rather than risk annihilation of the human race. As founder of Britain's "better Red than dead" Campaign for 'Nuclear Disarmament and later of an even more militant group called the Committee of 100. Russell denounces the U.S. as a nation of trigger-happy imperialists, but had only soft words for Russia's recent rocket rattling. Despite, or because of, the fact that...
...External Affairs Secretary Howard Green, a staunch advocate of disarmament at the U.N., has long argued against the idea on the theory that the fewer countries with nuclear bases the better. And Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, ever mindful that opposition Liberal Leader Lester B. Pearson once won a Nobel Peace Prize, backs him up. No nukes for Canada...
...University, faced with the example of California's excellent public universities, has risen to the nation's top rank. In the last 18 months alone, for example, it has purloined 125 teachers from campuses all over the U.S., and in the last decade it has acquired five Nobel prizewinners. The best private university in the West is hotly driving for $100 million, spurred by a 1-for-3 matching grant of up to $25 million from the Ford Foundation; the campaign, acronymously called PACE (Plan of Action for a Challenging Era), has already taken in more than...
Harvard English professors have expressed surprise and some disappointment at the selection of John Steinbeck for the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature. The choice "isn't beneath contempt," as one member of the English Department put it, but nearly everyone contacted thought there could have been a better choice...
...seems to me a minor writer with a fairly good comic talent and strong protest in a few books." Lynn mentioned two novels from the '30's. In Dubious Battle and Steinbeck's most famous work, Grapes of Wrath. The Nobel Prize, however, was ostensibly awarded for The Winter of Our Discontent, published last year and panned by critics...