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...University celebrates the opening of the Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory at 44 Oxford St. Harvard built the first such machine in 1937, but the federal government drafted it during World War II. It was taken apart and shipped to Los Alamos, N.M., in 1943, for service in designing the first atomic bombs. After the war, the government never gave back the cyclotron, so Harvard received funds from the Office of Naval Research to build a new one, completed in 1949. From then until 1967, physicists from many parts of the world used the machine to increase knowledge about the nature...
Ashbery received the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award for his 1975 book, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. He was the first English-language poet to win the Grand Prix de Biennales Internationales de Posie. He has also taken the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the MLA Common Wealth Award in Literature, the Frank O'Hara Prize, the Bollingen Prize, the English Speaking Union Prize, as well as many others...
...Ashbery received the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award for his 1975 book, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. He was the first English-language poet to win the Grand Prix de Biennales Internationales de Posie. He has also taken the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the MLA Common Wealth Award in Literature, the Frank O'Hara Prize, the Bollingen Prize, the English Speaking Union Prize, as well as many others...
...responding to the entry of mere cleverness [into academia] that had taken over," Heimert says...
Perhaps the following passage, taken from the Jan. 15, 1949, Harvard Alumni Bulletin, best sums up the differences between Lamont then...