Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alternative currency in President Nicolae Ceauşescu's Socialist Republic. Diplomats and foreign visitors use them as tips or to consummate business as well as sexual deals. Nor do the cigarettes immediately go up in smoke. Instead, they are traded back and forth by Rumanians, who prize them as a luxury item. The street price is three times the $1.10 cost per pack in the special dollar shops run for foreigners. "It's a startling feature of life here," says one Western diplomat. "You can't conduct business without at least having to consider using Kents...
Lewis too was a "monumental person," says Actor Bruce Dern, who is returning to Broadway after nearly two decades on TV and in films (Coming Home). "Lewis accepted the Nobel Prize at age 45, spent the rest of his life trying to live up to that prize, and it finally broke...
...later, he divorced her to marry Fashion Writer Pauline Pfeiffer. Remorseful, the novelist dedicated The Sun Also Rises to "Hadley," assigned her its royalties, and wrote fondly of her and their one child "Bumby" in his memoirs, A Moveable Feast. In 1933 Hadley married Paul Scott Mowrer, a Pulitzer-prize-winning foreign correspondent and later editor of the Chicago Daily News...
...following is the transcript of an interview between Andrei Sakharov, Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident in the Soviet Union, and Columbia Spectator reporters Joseph Ferullo, Mitch Rollnick, and Suzanne Moore. The interview, which took place in Sakharov's Moscow apartment on January 19, is also being published in the Brown Daily Herald, Columbia Daily Spectator. Cornell Daily Sun. The Dartmouth, and the Daily Pennsylvanian...
...work fascinated his countrymen from around 1905 to his death in 1962. They ranked him with Thomas Mann. In 1946 Hesse won the Nobel Prize, principally for The Glass Bead Game. Despite what one critic called "his self-indulgent solipsism raised to a more or less fine art," his meditations obviously found a strong resonance with the preoccupations and diseases of his century...