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So the ctrlicb' .s in ;boot{ •r 19$0 i=.itll' Ell B.-l . ;1nd t- m1J,ith~ for tIlt • elector-' pt e'- BA were not necessarily mere. expet'- Ill 19 1 the journ ;ll I ;Itn ci-l'I the Itind of iniL're5t 11red ti)r ;ltIl ;I ;s 1nth tilt' Okki11wimtl IA- Ind .I ('I'Illinsre`ri t1w 111 .ti11rk 111' lht• Nidlt'I piilllit'll tt'ot11d h :ltt' rijnici'd in . 11ro- ill 19;19 IIui1,F' 1-% 071 ,pxiii,ili •t 'd ill Ac;ideInNilhel selEcilclli, itnd In 1{1 :51 n- %rc'II, tlii,' Nrihc'1 I''nlindo- BA :I ' iiper-Nohcl' election in which lllawod r1 nuFiEier• ut ir'itl'i •s tli•1 'nit'd tlon . \t luck iii-' ; ;warding -if' rt` ;u6ur collnhorlrttn's and itIFC'I tivnrtlrr of tlti. l.irr,e"- recuWnitilul but :III IJ vt` Nnlx I I'rnf.l'~ + ;ich M ca r . this51 ~'lF{'CUkIJ~C~' 1Vi`1I t+i 1110115{` 1III 1ViiidI litthcrln utit'i]orlked lls tLE cnlli111it- the l'uivel-it4 tiC( )klllhutn ;l Errv-s Ii, 1981 SPRING 1 7 issue the first English-language edi- Still, the whole is both an excellent undistinguished, to say the least . and tion of its own authoritative volume, contribution to BA's continued and even smacked of political balancing Nobel: The Mon & His Pri :t's. long-standing interest in the prizes . (Soviett novelist Mikhail Sholokhov in As Savoie Lottinvillei then director and a line posthumous tribute to the 19651 and tepid compromise i Hebrew of the Press. wrote at the time to Dr- BA editor who had organized the novelist S . Y . Agnon and German- IfHouse : "it may he a happy reflection symposium . Robert Vlach 1d . 1966 . Jewish poet Nclly Sachs, joint re- upon literary toleration in this coun- professor of modern languages at OU cipients in 19661, try a and at the University of' Ok- and himself the contributor of the lvask's intent was to set up an lahoma that the publishing house essay on Slavic award recipients .