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...ladylike was Kerr (pronounced "car")? Three times the New York Film Critics' Circle named her best actress prize, and two of those awards came for playing nuns, in Black Narcissus in 1947 and Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison a decade later. (The third was as the wife of sheepherder Robert Mitchum in the 1960 The Sundowners.) How congenial? In 1956 she was given a Hollywood bauble called the Golden Apple Award as Most Cooperative Actress...
...very long after James Watson finished his Nobel Prize-winning work on the structure of DNA in 1953, he started firing off some eyebrow-raising comments about his fellow man: that fat people don't get hired because they lack ambition; how sunlight (and darker skin) is the source of the "Latin lover" libido; what he found distasteful in the appearance of his female research collaborator, Rosalind Franklin...
Faust’s inauguration was heralded by a flurry of artistic activity. Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison began the artistic celebration with a reading from her new “work in progress” the day before Faust’s inaguration...
...cast of notables from Harvard and the world of playwrights to celebrate the opening of the New College Theatre on Holyoke Street last night. Dean of the Faculty Michael D. Smith and Dean of the College David Pilbeam participated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony while prominent playwrights, including Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vogel, were featured on a panel. In tune with the bright red and purple décor of the venue—once the site of the old Hasty Pudding Theatre—the Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA) set a lighthearted and celebratory tone...
...used is far from a scholarship for excellence; it’s an invitation for careless spending that sends the message that money is the direct reward of learning. But it’s not, and it shouldn’t be. Better opportunities for the future are the prize, not just cash...