The Pulitzer Prize for Criticism has been presented since 1970 . Recipients of the award are chosen by an independent board and officially administered by Columbia University. pulitzer.org/board/1970
Pulitzer Prize Board 1969-1970 👇
Andrew W. Cordier, Acting President, Columbia University
Cordier was educated at Manchester College in Indiana, (1923-44); the Univ. of Chicago; and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva
> Manchester University auditorium
John Hohenberg, executive secretary, The Pulitzer Prizes, Columbia University
born 1906
" began his journalism career as a teenager by snatching an interview with the president of the US and went on to become administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes"
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An educated guess means that at the age of, say, 16 , Hohenberg may have interviewed the 29th president of the US - Warren G. Harding
Though his term in office was fraught with scandal, including Teapot Dome , Harding embraced technology and was sensitive to the plights of minorities and women." - White House 😏
"Bill Clinton named Meryl Streep , Robert De Niro ,
and TOM HANKS as his favorite actors" apparently
Well, Roger Ebert told us so (the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism ) in The Bill Clinton Interview , 2000 siskelebert.org/?p=7506
More about him later
"The Bill Clinton Story: Winning the Presidency "
by John Hohenberg 👈
"Discusses the events surrounding Bill Clinton's 1992 US presidential campaign.[&]reveals how Clinton became an apostle of change and describes how the reunited Democratic party became a powerhouse of youth"
"Hohenberg came from the golden age of competitive newspapering covering the 1935 trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann who was convicted of kidnapping Charles Lindbergh's baby"
"serial # on a $10 gold certificate deposited by a gas station..on the list of Lindbergh ransom bills"👇
"Ahlgren can’t explain why he mailed Monier the article. .. The 40-year-old police chief keeps an autographed photo of George Bush next to his desk."
Back to Hohenberg bio pulitzer.org/board/1970
"..hanging out with Hemingway in Paris and reporting on the birth pangs of the United Nations and Israel. Tom Goldstein, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, speaks of ''the John Hohenberg legend.."
"His father refused to pay for the liberal arts education he wanted, so the gangling 17-year-old showed up at The Seattle Star, now closed, to ask for a job."
"When the Secret Service [SS] demanded to see his nonexistent press credentials, employment seemed unlikely. [Hohenberg] called the office, fearing that his name would mean nothing.
''Mercifully,'' he wrote later, ''by grace of the kindly Jehovah that watches over babies,
pretty girls and addled young men, the city editor remembered me and was sportsman enough to clear me for passage to the pier as a Star reporter.'
The result was a second's conversation in which President Warren G. Harding allowed that he liked Seattle..."
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Pulitzer Prize Board 1969-1970
Norman E. Isaacs, Lecturer and Editor-in-Residence, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University
"IN their handling of Philip Roth's celebrated new novel, Portnoy's Complaint, the nation's editors and reviewers faced one of modern journalism's increasingly recurrent challenges to taste & sensibilities...
"The problem was not how to judge the book (with few exceptions, critics called it a masterly novel of the Jewish genre), but how to convey its sexual content and earthy language without using THOSE WORDS. ..
The Louisville Courier-Journal and Times went ahead and used the words, but later regretted it. "We regarded it as an official report, and it is our policy not to tinker with the text of an official report," says Executive Editor Norman Isaacs. As complaints poured in from
church groups and offended readers, Isaacs candidly apologized. "It was an error in news judgment," he adds. "It isn't likely to happen again."
Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey, ..
Roth's family was Jewish, and his parents were second-generation Americans
Roth was an atheist who once said, "When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Ro…
Nicole Shanahan:
"please excuse me as I am a new Christian, currently devouring large amounts of Christian literature and trying to educate myself. So, bear with me as I navigate and unpack the overlay of theology on my personal experience of Burning Man"
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Shanahan : "On the nature of “demons,” “Satan,” and “evil,” I’ve found C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters—and its companion essay Screwtape Proposes a Toast—to be helpful illustrations of Satan at work."..
Lewis portrays demons as subtle, manipulative beings who exploit human weaknesses rather than overtly monstrous entities. In The Screwtape Letters, Hell is an organization with established hierarchies, laws, and menus for the consumption of souls."..
The Bradford Care Alliance was established in 2016 and is made up of 55 practices. The social enterprise “pools the expertise of the majority of the district’s General Practices”.".. thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/19547094.…
The report said: “At the time of our inspection, the provider had limited systems in place to safeguard children and vulnerable adults from abuse.".. theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/j…
John Thompson, the Microsoft board member who oversaw its search for a new chief executive, becomes chairman. “During this time of transformation, there is no better person to lead Microsoft than Satya Nadella,” Gates said..".. theguardian.com/technology/201…
In December, speaking at the Le Web conference in Paris, Nadella addressed the revelations of the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, saying they demonstrated that “the surveillance system has to be reformed”."..