Word: prize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nobel Prize for literature merely confirmed what her readers and admirers had known for more than two decades: Toni Morrison is a major American writer. But because she is an African-American woman, her importance to and impact on her times transcend the literary. Her example, both in her powerful novels and in her strong, imposing personality, has inspired a generation of black artists and produced seismic effects on publishing...
...vastly different means. For voters the choices resolved themselves into something deeply psychological: hope vs. fear, opportunity vs. peril, a plunge into a risky future or an overhasty abandoning of the familiar, go-it-alone past. Was it wise to put faith in the dream of Nobel Peace Prize-winning Labor leader Shimon Peres, who promised a New Middle East crafted of compromise, or to heed the warnings of Netanyahu, who spoke the word fear 11 times in the candidates' 30-min. debate to remind voters that Israel must first defeat the terror still stalking their streets? Could peace treaties...
ELIE WIESEL Author and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Don't be worried. There is something called the wisdom of the people, and we must have faith in it. A Jewish wise man once said, "Trust the people, for they may not be prophets, but they are the children of prophets." History is irreversible. Think about tomorrow. There will be negotiations. During the campaign, Netanyahu spoke like Peres; Peres spoke like Netanyahu. So don't worry. It will...
Similarly, a commercially valuable animal--a champion bull or a prize hog, for example--could keep producing sperm indefinitely, even after death, using lesser specimens as surrogate spermmakers. Stem cells also give rise to new stem cells, which can then be harvested and frozen in turn. As a result, says Pennsylvania veterinary physiologist Ralph Brinster, a co-author of both studies, "we can make any individual male biologically immortal...
...greater the artist the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. "As a painter, I become more lucid in front of Nature," Paul Cezanne wrote to his son in 1906, the last year of his life. "But that realization of my sensations is always very painful. I cannot attain the intensity which unfolds to my senses. I don't have that magnificent richness of coloration which animates nature...