Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska has been awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize for Literature [Milestones, Oct. 14], one can hardly buy her poems in Polish bookstores--they are sold out. These days our life-style has changed; we scarcely have time for poems. It is sad that we need a kind of hype to get interested in the wonders of poetry. This Nobel Prize serves to remind us that it is time to strengthen our weak cultural awareness. MACIEJ FRANKIEWICZ Konin, Poland
...President has sent him on a series of sensitive diplomatic missions: he secured the release of U.S. citizens from North Korea and Iraq, and this year traveled to Cuba to negotiate the release of three political prisoners. For his work he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize...
...Writing Down the Bones and The Gentle Art of Authorship. In the process, I found a book by Richard Rhodes, author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb. It was not about nuclear war but writing, and I was delighted to pick it up and learn that this Pulitzer Prize-winning author got his start as the writer of Hallmark Cards' daily employee newspaper. Not to mention the advice of his public relations manager on how to write: "Rhodes, you apply ass to chair...
Then again, if Dole loses the big prize but helps his party keep the House, a deeply discouraged G.O.P. will be thankful for what it can get. Republicans, who have been edgy in private for weeks, are getting edgy in public. Last week William Kristol, editor of the conservative Weekly Standard, declared the presidential race a lost cause and urged congressional candidates to sell themselves to voters as a check on Clinton's liberal impulses in his inevitable second term. Columnist Morton Kondracke reported that the candidates were getting ready to do just that. During postdebate analysis...
...elected Prime Minister again as head of Israel's Labor Party in 1992. From that time until his death, Rabin pursued peace with several Arab nations. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts...