Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard is an amazing place. Your senior thesis in animation can win a prize at Toronto's annual animation festival, and almost no one around Harvard will ever hear about it. Harvard's only response to Joanne Freeman's 1976 success Toilette was, in effect, "Mazel tov, and we'll keep the royalties...
...First prize went to Fred Gold en for his Sept. 4, 1978, story...
...four German intellectuals who signed a manifesto condemning the war. His wife and their two sons had returned to Switzerland. Within a few years the separation led to divorce. In a characteristic gesture of generosity, Einstein had agreed to give the money from his anticipated Nobel Prize to his family. (The $30,000 prize was finally announced in 1922?for his photoelectric theory. Relativity, still not universally accepted among scientists, was only hinted at in the Nobel citation.) Shortly after the divorce, Einstein married his widowed cousin Elsa...
...insults the Commies, return to Berlin where he gets drunk and insults her, get married and move to Vermont where she misses her journalism and he can't write, fly back to Europe where she exposes the German Third Reich as evil and violent while he collects the Nobel Prize, gets drunk and insults her, fly back to America where she's a national heroine and he gets drunk and insults...
Much of Strangers concerns itself with Lewis's failure to write anything of merit after winning his Nobel Prize. The writer who loses his ability to write is an agonizing, highly personal subject that has rarely been handled well on stage--probably because it attracts writers who themselves are struggling to write something, and this subject allows them to be miserably self-indulgent and generally unperceptive...