Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Institute awarded the Science Center a prize last week for architectural excellence in a university setting. Buildings at Brown and Yale Universities and St. Mary's College of Indiana also won awards...
DIED. Jean Stafford, 63, caustic lady of letters whose tautly structured short stories won a 1970 Pulitzer Prize; of a heart attack; in White Plains, N.Y. Acclaimed for her first novel, Boston Adventure, at age 29, Stafford went on to publish two more novels, numerous short stories and many nonfiction works. The widow of Press Critic A.J. Liebling and a sharp wit in conversation and prose, Stafford said: "I write for myself and God and a few close friends...
...PRIZE STORIES 1979: THE O. HENRY AWARDS...
...Prize Stories 1979: The O. Henry Awards contains no such surprises. It is a solid, predictable gathering with one interesting sociological twist. Most of the stories are about failing marriages. Three reasons suggest themselves: more writers are writing about what they know, and what they know is failing marriages; the subject is particularly appealing to the editor; or both...
...event, the latest Prize Stories rely heavily on a familiar tone of disillusion. The man whose business fails and wife leaves him, the writer whose wife runs off with a Terry-Thomas Englishman, the couple who discover they enjoy sex more after their divorce, have all passed this way before...