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...generally obscure writers who won Nobel Prizes (worth $51,158 this year) between 1959 and 1963. In 62 years of Nobel-picking, the Swedish Academy of Literature has ignored an incredible array of logical candidates-Chekhov, Conrad, Frost, Hardy, Ibsen, Joyce, Sartre, Malraux, Moravia, Pound, Proust, Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Zola-not to mention the glaring neglect of non-European writers, notably in China, India and Japan...
...Washington named him "Hoosier of the Year." But Shoup, a native of Battle Ground, Ind., took it in stride when the band played Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk. In his acceptance speech, the general warmed anew to the pleasures of the great outdoors, complimented Wife Zola, his faithful camping companion on many a ... But then he stopped himself. "What have I said? I hope the whole world doesn't take off on a camping spree next week...
...most countries, men of letters have had small success in righting the wrongs of an unjust trial. But France boasts two famous instances in which a literary man with the national destiny on the tip of his tongue has appeared to sear the public conscience. Most celebrated is Emile Zola's "J'accuse," which helped reverse the verdict in l'affaire Dreyfus. Less well known but historically probably more significant was Voltaire's angry intervention in l'affaire Calas...
...shaky position of the head of the central government in Leopoldville, Premier Cyrille Adoula, who has taken to sleeping in a paratroop compound in fear for his life. "He is hanging on by an eyelash," said a diplomat. The tumultuous Parliament is openly rebellious. One portly Deputy named Emile Zola drew cheers by reciting a long list of grievances against Adoula, punctuating each with "J'accuse...
...prison life not so much in anger as in new-found wisdom, Crump tells the story of Guy Morgan. Like Crump, Morgan hates his father, a hellfire-and-brimstone revival preacher with a weakness for girls, who finally abandons the family for the favors of a particular girl named Zola. Morgan, like Crump, is brutally and unjustifiably beaten by a Negro-hating Chicago cop. But with plenty of precedent and plenty of excuse for blaming all Morgan's troubles on society, Crump instead makes his story illustrate a more mature individual judgment-a man can live only...