Word: nobels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...matter what happens or does not happen as a result of the Camp David agreements, the next Nobel Peace Prize should be awarded jointly to Sadat, Begin and Carter...
...framework" for peace between Egypt and Israel that has emerged out of the Camp David summit meeting is the greatest harbinger for lasting peace in the Western world in our century. President Carter has earned the Nobel Prize for Peace; there can be no other claimant in the field...
...fellow commission members include 1970 Nobel Peace Prizewinner Norman Borlaug, developer of new wheat strains and father of the "green revolution," Thomas Wyman, president of the Green Giant food corporation, and Singer John Denver, who has produced a documentary movie on hunger, I Want to Live. Said Carter of Denver:. "While some of us can only reach thousands of people on the problem of hunger, he can reach millions...
...when I sit down to write I have a feeling that I'm talking maybe to millions or maybe to nobody." Last week he could be assured of at least 18 avid readers-the members of the Swedish Academy, which awarded the 74-year-old writer the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature for his "impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life...
...vegetarian who refuses to swat flies, a firm believer in the supernatural, Singer has mysteriously grown more prolific with age: since his 50th birthday he has written eight novels, ten children's books, four memoirs and scores of short stories. All of them are suffused with, in the Nobel committee's memorable phrase, "the author's apparently inexhaustible psychological fantasy ... of manias and superstitions, fanatical hopes and dreams, the figments of terror, the lure of lust or power...