1976

Banquet speech

Milton Friedman’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1976 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a great honour and privilege for me to be here tonight, sharing in the reflected glory from my distinguished colleagues, not only the six fellow members of the class of 1976, but the many more…

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Banquet speech

William Lipscomb’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1976 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The award this year of the Nobel Prize in chemistry for research in pure inorganic chemistry is an important event. It is a reminder that we know even now considerably less about most of the chemical elements…

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Prose

Excerpt from Herzog If I am out of my mind, it’s all right with me, thought Moses Herzog. Some people thought he was cracked and for a time he himself had doubted that he was all there. But now, though he still behaved oddly, he felt confident, cheerful, clairvoyant, and strong. He had fallen under…

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Banquet speech

Saul Bellow’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1976 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, There are not many things on which the world agrees but everyone I think acknowledges the importance of a Nobel Prize. I myself take most seriously the Nobel Committee’s recognition of the highest excellence in several fields…

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Bibliography

Original Dangling Man. – New York: Vanguard, 1944 The Victim. – New York: Vanguard, 1947 The Adventures of Augie March: a novel. – New York: Viking, 1953 Seize the Day. – New York: Viking, 1956 Henderson the Rain King. – New York: Viking, 1959 Herzog. – New York: Viking, 1964 The Last Analysis: a play.…

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