Word: prizes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...both. In 1964 Arthur Ashe won the U.S. Open, Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. And on June 19 the U.S. Senate passed its landmark Civil Rights Bill. But two days later, three civil rights workers -- two Northern whites, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, and a Southern black, James Chaney -- were arrested for speeding in Philadelphia, Miss., then jailed and later released into the night. They were never again seen alive...
...Pulitzer prize winner Charles Fuller (A Soldier's Play) launches an earnest, poignant cycle of five black history dramas, beginnning with Sally and Prince, in repertory off Broadway...
...even, two years ago, a nonfiction work on boxing. This frenetic production has hardly destroyed her reputation; she is a literary figure of considerable clout, she holds a tenured professorship at Princeton University, and every fall her name is rumored to be on the short list for the Nobel Prize. But there is something of the sideshow about her renown among the general reading public; she is widely recognized as the woman who turns out all those books, less often as the author of a single, unforgettable narrative. Thanks to her own energy, nothing she has written has ever been...
Physicists and chemists can earn the ultimate recognition: a Nobel Prize. Why not accord the same honor to environmental scientists? At the conference, the proposal was backed by everyone from U.S. Senator Albert Gore to Vasili Peskov, a correspondent for the Moscow newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. Peskov | suggested that the first environmental Nobel be given posthumously to Rachel Carson, whose 1962 book Silent Spring helped alert the world to the pollution threat...
Alfred Nobel's will set up five awards: physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology, literature and peace. But that limitation was overcome in 1968, when Sweden's Central Bank financed a separate economics prize in memory of Nobel...