Word: prize
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...Solitude (1970). That rousing chronicle of a mythical South American town and a family doomed to heroism and folly established its author's international reputation. Among the book's magical properties was the power to transform a once obscure Colombian journalist into the recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature. Garcia Marquez, of course, published other works along the way to Stockholm, including three novels, several collections of stories and dusted-off samples of old newspaper reporting. But none of these achieved the glitter and scope of his most triumphant narrative, which concluded, after all, with a warning that...
...Somebody's been teaching you how to preach," Jackson said with sincerity. Gore, his eyes on the prize, smiled broadly. "But," Jackson continued, "I am both a man and a movement. As a man, I can give you my private backing. But as a movement, my power is lacking. My delegates have their own dreams, their own schemes. Even if I could deliver 500 of them, that would still leave you miles from victory...
...festival offers some discoveries, however. Leningrad Composer Andrei Petrov's 1980 Violin Concerto is a sturdy showpiece that picks up momentum from its opening recitative to its blazing vivo finale; it got an otherworldly performance from Soloist Sergei Stadler, a baby-faced firebrand who shared first prize in the 1982 Tchaikovsky Competition with Viktoria Mullova. Sergei Slonimsky's sprightly two-minute Novgorod Dance -- hellzapoppin', cossack- style, ending with the clarinetist, trombonist, cellist, pianist and conductor all merrily hoofing it around the stage -- bespeaks a composer with both an ear and a sense of humor. Best of all is Schnittke...
...Nathan prize, awarded annually for excellence in dramatic criticism by the chairmen of the English departments of Cornell, Princeton and Yale universities, is one of the most distinguished awards in the field of theatrical writing, said Stephen B. Boies, vice president of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company, which administers the prize. "I don't know, offhand, of any other award like this," said Boies...
Professor Steinberg covers intellectual territory which--although popular outside Harvard--is unique in this History department; he is the lone historian of America on the Social Studies faculty. In both History and Social Studies he has advised half a dozen summa and prize-winning theses in three years, some written by students who might otherwise have despaired of studying American history at Harvard. Most important, impressive, and remarkable, given the demands placed on scholars at the associate professor level, Allen Steinberg never gives in to the easy analysis or explanation. In lecture and discussion he is forever reaching...