Word: nobels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Blotner's notes make clear, Faulkner accepted editorial quibbles and orders to revise or rewrite with little complaint; it comes as something of a surprise to watch the future Nobel laureate acceding to the demands of the popular press. As a result of such proddings, Faulkner's magazine stories were usually simpler, more straightforward and less resonant than his finest work. Reprinted in Uncollected Stories, these early versions inspire a sense of deja vu, for Faulkner frequently expanded and reshaped his published stories and inserted them in novels. A tale of his called The Bear appeared...
...tenant, Shelly Glashow, is one of the three recipients of the 1979 Nobel Prize in physics. Had you glanced to your right some ten yards back, you would have been looking into the anteroom of the office of one of the others, Professor Steven Weinberg. His office is much like what you'd expect from a university big wig--carpeting, bound journals and paneling lend it an aura of the esoteric altogether absent in his neighbor...
...accept in the name of the poor, because I believe that by giving me the prize they've recognized the presence of the poor in the world." The new Nobel prizewinner will use the money to build more hospices, "especially for the lepers...
Most modern writers emphasize motivation and theme rather than suspense and consequently lose the reader's interest, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nobel Laureate in literature, told a crowd of 1100 yesterday in Sanders Theater...
Born in Poland, Singer emigrated to the United States in 1935 and now lives in Florida. The 1978 Nobel Laureate has written more than a dozen books in his native Yiddish and subsequently translated them into English...