Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Bikales won the prize, he was delighted, he said. "Even if I hadn't won I would have been really happy about the whole experience," he said...
...efforts Bikales shared a $2000 prize for book or print collecting with an undergraduate, Adam M. Weiss '89 for his print collection. The award was announced last month at a dinner at the Faculty Club...
...said that the purpose of the prize was to foster interest in collecting, and to have people realize that collecting does not have to be an expensive hobby...
When the Swedish Academy last week announced its choice for the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature, the reaction across the globe might be summarized as Que Cela, Cela? Was the award to Spanish author Camilo Jose Cela, 73, another example of the Academy's penchant for giving unheard-of writers undreamt-of recognition? Yes, in the sense that Cela has not had much impact outside his native land for a quarter-century. But on reflection, the better answer is no, for Cela, though now little read, has amassed a body of powerful, disturbing work -- and lived a risky, iconoclastic life...
...fact, Haavelmo's prize reflected a situation that is unique to the award for economics. The Nobel Prizes were first given in 1901, but the economics citation was not added until 1969, when it was established by Sweden's central bank. That late start has prompted the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to choose many older economists whose work could not be recognized when it was first published. "They're clearing up the backlog," says Harvard economist Zvi Griliches, who hailed this year's choice. "They haven't got to the point of recognizing something interesting that happened...