Word: prized
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...opera proved that the cultural commissars Lad a supersensitive nose for bourgeois decay and no ear for music. They had completely ignored a libretto that wallowed in patriotism, and a highly melodious score. Based on a Stalin prize-winning novel, Prokofiev's Story tells of a World War II pilot who lost both legs in a crash and lived to fly again, after a harrowing, 17-day crawl behind enemy lines (enacting this scene, the opera's hero sings flat on his belly). With the composer and his wife themselves adapting the tale, the entire effort seems...
Reuben A. Brower, professor of English, has received a 1960 Christian Gauss prize given by Phi Beta Kappa...
Awarded for the "best book written by an American in literary criticism or history," the $1000 prize was given to Brower for his recent work, Alexander Pope: the Poetry of Allusion...
...nominate him as the ideal man to represent the human race on a mission to Mars; in Cambridge, Mass. After eye trouble ended Howe's career as an editor (Youth's Companion, Atlantic Monthly), he became an author, wrote 38 volumes in longhand (including a 1924 Pulitzer Prize biography, Barrett Wendell and his Letters), but maintained nonetheless that his "best products" were his children: onetime Monologist and Novelist Helen, Harvard Law Professor Mark Jr. and Newscaster Quincy...
Sohn was, however, impressed by the calibre of the Russian representatives. "The Russians sent their best people," he continued, "which perhaps indicates that the Russians are more serious about disarmament than the Americans." The Soviet group included Nobel Prize winners, while the American group did not have...