Word: knighthood
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Awards and accolades came to Fleming in rapid succession, including a knighthood (with Florey) in 1944 and the Nobel Prize for Medicine (with Florey and Chain) in 1945. By this time, even Fleming was aware that penicillin had an Achilles' heel. He wrote in 1946 that "the administration of too small doses ... leads to the production of resistant strains of bacteria." It's a problem that plagues us to this...
After 41 years on the English stage, after receiving the female equivalent of a knighthood in 1987--"Oh, don't call me Dame," she says, burying her face in her hands--it appears that Dench's American moment has arrived. Last year she received an Oscar nomination for Mrs. Brown; her Golden Globe nomination this year for Shakespeare puts her back in the Oscar game; and in April, she will appear on Broadway for the first time in 40 years, starring in David Hare's Amy's View, a 1997 London hit. She has even gone mainstream--playing...
...Actors nowadays don't do too badly. When Olivier got a knighthood, it was considered almost unknown. Now, there's almost one a year. [But many are] Shakespearian actors, and you very rarely see them on film. By the way, Vanessa Redgrave, it is commonly understood, has turned it down...
...20th century: Einstein, Freud, Picasso, Churchill, Nehru. And then there was his conversation, which tumbled forth with amazing rapidity--he was once clocked at 400 words a minute--all of it gargled through the remaining traces of his childhood Latvian. When British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan proposed Berlin for knighthood in 1957, the PM suggested that the honor might be deserved "for talking...
...past six years, they have obviously been indicators of U.S. News' supreme foresight and intuition about the state of the nation's higher education. After all, the same magazine two years ago cited the word Harvard as "the seven letters that attach themselves to your name like a foreign knighthood." We like to agree...