Word: nobels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week, honored as Citizen of the Year at an educators' conclave and requested to bring along his most formative teacher, Bunche chose Miss Sweet, now a spry 82. Diplomatically, Miss Sweet chose to "forget" the reason why she gave Ralph only a C+ in deportment, but the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize winner quickly chimed in to jog her memory. "I've always been rather warlike," he said. "Spitballs were my weapons-and a wagging tongue...
...have reinvented him to embody the mystical dialectic of his own devout skepticism. As a younger man. Lagerkvist-now 70-wrote of himself that he was "a believer without a belief, a religious atheist." Today, after half a century of novels, plays, stories and poems that earned him the Nobel Prize in 1951, Lagerkvist is still obsessed with God, still a believing unbeliever...
...speech at Harkness Commons, the Nobel Prize-winning biologist urged applying scientific thinking to the problem of achieving permanent peace--"a proposition much more complex and difficult than war. We can no longer save liberty by dying in war; we can only destroy it," said Szent-Gyorgyi. He deplored the genetic damage wreaked by atomic war, saying that "if anything in life is holy it is this genetic material which has mankind's past and future written into...
...Nobel laureate scored the Administration's nascent shelter program a "senseless" and asked that the proposed outlay for construction be used instead to create "an International Institute for the Study of Peace, where we can get together in a neutral atmosphere with friends and adversaries to discuss problems, where minds can meet. War, being a political instrument of equalization cannot be abolished; it can only be replaced by something better and more intelligent...
...feasible are trips by earthmen to other solar systems? They're practically impossible, according to Nobel-prize-winning physicist Edward M. Purcell, Gerhard Gade University Professor...