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...foremost literary figure in Egypt in the late '40s and '50s, Naguib Mahfouz is the first Arab language writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature in the 87-year history of the award. His works are known throughout the Middle East for their vivid descriptions and insights about turbulent social change in postwar Egypt, according to Harvard experts on Arabic literature...
...prominent Egyptian novelist, known for his works on social change in post-World War II Egypt, yesterday won the Nobel Prize for Literature...
...history and literature concentrator says her candidacy for chairman is bolstered by her accomplishments as services committee chairman, including the inception of the Julio Delvalle Memorial Public Service prize and the chartered buses which went to the Yale game. Her committee also presided over the installation of condom machines in all the houses last spring...
LOUISE DAY HICKS--The controversial Hicks is one of the key characters in J. Anthony Lukas' Pulitzer Prize-winning book about Boston's busing crisis, Common Ground. Lukas describes Hicks, the school committee member who marshaled Boston's anti-busing forces, as a "huge marshmallow of a woman in her tentlike dresses...
...Yuppie" is admittedly an overused term. In this case, it refers to a generation of obsessively discerning consumers. Yuppies are people who can define themselves and categorize other people according to what they buy. They prize Taste above all--taste in food, in friends, in cars and, yes, in shoes...