Word: prize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deus ex machina in the person of Saul Bellow, a Nobel laureate, no less, who administered a scolding to those who had rebuffed Kennedy's manuscript and thereby inaugurated a streak of magic. When Ironweed finally appeared in 1983, it won a fistful of awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, not to mention a sale to Hollywood for a big-budget adaptation (Jack Nicholson! Meryl Streep!). Meanwhile -- the narrative gets even better -- Kennedy, now 60, found himself the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship ($264,000 over five years), diverse other honors, and that peculiar American status,the long, drawn...
ARIA. Assign ten directors to work daft magic on ten of opera's greatest hits, and the result is this beguiling pastiche of long-haired "videos." Ken Russell wins top prize for his Turandotty dream sequence...
...popularity is intrinsically vulgar and hence earned, always, by inferior poems. The facts largely argue against this mythology, and the accomplishments of Richard Wilbur, 67, make it look silly. For more than 40 years, Wilbur has written poetry that garnered both critical acclaim and public recognition, including a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. He has taught at Harvard, Wellesley, Wesleyan and Smith, and generously given foreign authors an English-speaking readership, translating works by, among others, Anna Akhmatova, Jorge Luis Borges, Andrei Voznesensky and Joseph Brodsky. His words have been sung on Broadway, set to Leonard Bernstein...
...other recipients of the six-year-old prize, who are chosen by the Academics Committee of the council based on nominations by students, were Senior Preceptor in Mathematics Deborah J. Hughes-Hallet and Mather House government tutor Duane Draper. The prize--which includes two books and, for the two junior recipients, $150--were given at an Eliot House dinner attended by about 100 people...
...recipients of the prize--which is a memorial to Joseph R. Levenson, a former instructor in Chinese history at Harvard renowned for his teaching ability--praised their students for being the key ingredient in their pedagogical success...