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...then, Rauschenberg had stopped making his work from actual objects and was using overlays of silk-screened photos, an idea he got from Andy Warhol. The paintings--like Estate, 1963--that won him the grand prize at the 1964 Venice Biennale, with their high, bright color and rapid shuttle of images, conveyed an extraordinary impression of the electronic image glut that comes from TV. Through silk screen, Rauschenberg could now compress fragments of events as well as things into his work, giving it a heightened, broken-up documentary flavor--history painting for channel surfers...
This is how Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin remembers the New York suburb Rockville Centre of her childhood in her memoir Wait Till Next Year. Though it outwardly embodies the popular conception of the '50s, this book doesn't tell the same old story. Goodwin reveals herself, not surprisingly, as a precocious child. From her ill, house-bound mother, she gained a love for books; from her oldest sister Charlotte, a sense of grace and style; and from Jeanne, the middle child, confidence and ambition. Her father taught her a love of baseball--especially of the Brooklyn Dodgers...
...stipulations of Nobel's will which prevent the prize from being divided among more than three people in each category each year force the prize to focus on the achievements of individuals...
Though the nature of science may have changed since the inception of the Nobel prize, the meaning of the prize for the general public has remained the same...
...public] sees the winners [as] being rewarded for genius," Mendelsohn said. "In the scientific community, [Nobel laureates] are regarded as peers who were particularly clever." A NOBLE FACULTY The most recent 10 laureates from Harvard University Name Prize and Year Robert C. Merton Economic Sciences, 1997 Elias J. Corey Chemistry, 1990 Ramsey F. Norman Physics, 1989 Dudley R. Herschbach Chemistry, 1986 Nicolaas Bloembergen Physics, 1981 David H. Hubel Physiology/Medicine, 1981 Baruj Benacerraf Physiology/Medicine, 1980 Steven Weinberg Physics, 1979 William N. Lipscomb Chemistry, 1976 Wassily Leontief Economic Sciences, 1973 The Official Web site for the Nobel prizes...