Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nair won $175 for delivering part of Jocasta's speech from a modern adaptation of Seneca's Oedipus. A transfer student from Delhi University, she won first prize in a nationwide speech contest in India...
...Robert Coles '50, lecturer on General Education and a winner of the Pulitzer prize, said when children are told about the greatness of the American political system, and then see the lying, cheating and dishonesty that goes on within it, they face conflicting codes of ethics...
Pristine Chants. Lily is a brilliant flop. A professor at Harvard and a 1967 Pulitzer Prize winner, Kirchner concedes the opera's transparent comment on American intervention abroad. In fact, he once considered (and wisely reconsidered) calling it Why We Were in Viet Nam. What he has produced, however, is a 91-minute, one-act work in which Henderson simply fails to come alive as an operatic hero. Possibly he is too rambling, too widely split a character to be captured in the broad terms that opera thrives on. Certainly Kirchner, who conducted the première, has come...
...admissions office sends brochures to applicants declaring "Almost every member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is both a teacher and a scholar and teaches undergraduates as well as graduate students...Most professors are anxious to work with undergraduates; a freshman may well be taught by a Nobel Prize winner or a world-famous scholar." And likewise every year, a starry-eyed freshman class arrives here expecting the College to live up to this bill--that students work with Faculty members as "friends and fellow-scholars...
...physical edge of town becomes the border of accepted society which contributes in turn to the border of love and hate between lonely and alcoholic mother and her daughters in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds. A girl who wins a big science prize at school wants her mother to come to the award ceremony but the mother who, with her strange ways has never worked for the acceptance of the community, is ashamed. And so, in the Winthrop House production, the fierce battle for independence and pride against pride and love begins. Performances...