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Her mother's story Sissela Bok draws a perceptive portrait of a woman who acted on her passions in `Alva Myrdal: A Daughter's Memoir'
; ...but difficult and egocentric man, Alva Myrdal decided it was time to get on with...interests to those of her husband, Alva Myrdal decided the time had come. She...disarmament efforts. In her new book, "Alva Myrdal: A Daughter's Memoir," Sissela...
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Alva Myrdal's campaign for the Swedish comprehensive school.
; ...of one such individual and reform: Alva Myrdal's promotion of the enhetsskola [the...leading twentieth century reformers, Myrdal first proposed more egalitarian public...underprivileged. By the early 1940S, Myrdal revised her earlier idea that recruiting...
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GUNNAR MYRDAL, WON NOBEL PRIZE, WROTE ABOUT POOR IN AMERICA; 88
; STOCKHOLM - Gunnar Myrdal, the Nobel Prize-winning economist...died Sunday. He was 88. Mr. Myrdal, author of "An American Dilemma...economics. He was the widower of Alva Myrdal, a 1982 Nobel Peace Prize laureate...of 25 he married 22-year-old Alva Reimer, a university student...
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Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish Economist Who Shared Nobel Prize, Dies at 88
; Gunnar Myrdal, 88, a writer, social reformer, retired university professor...hospital in Stockholm. The cause of death was not reported. Dr. Myrdal was the author of the classic 1944 study on race relations...Challenge to Affluence." A lawyer and economist by training, Dr. Myrdal and his wife Alva ...
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Gunnar Myrdal, 88, Nobel economist and sociologist
; ...died Sunday at age 88, a hospital spokesman said. Mr. Myrdal, who had been ill for some time, died in Stockholm's Ersta...cause of death was not announced, but a grandson, Janken Myrdal, said he "died naturally of old age." Mr. Myrdal shared the Nobel economics prize in 1974 with Friedrich...point of a ...
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; ALVA MYRDAL A Daughter's Memoir By Sissela Bok Merloyd Lawrence/Addison-Wesley 375 pp. $22.95 ALVA MYRDAL, author, Nobel Prize winner and international...the needs of her children. The life of Alva Myrdal has been obscured by idealized views of...
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(book reviews)
; * Sissela Bok. Alva Myrdal: A Daughter's Memoir. Reading, MA...part of the Radcliff Biography Series, Alva Myrdal: A Daughter's Memoir fulfills the stated...undertook to write the story of her mother Alva Myrdal. She writes that, even as a child...
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`Childhood' shows parents' weaknesses and a son's strength
; Childhood By Jan Myrdal. Translated by Christine Swanson...Nobel laureates Gunnar and Alva Myrdal horrified Swedes, who revere...ones who proselytized as the Myrdals did for larger families and...In fairness to Gunnar and Alva, it should be noted that their...affection in her biography ...
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Entire planet now one big military base
; ...bookshelf for another reading of Alva Myrdal's The Game of Disarmament. The...samplings of only one day's stories. To Alva Myrdal, they meant moving beyond the conventional...unprecedented violence and weapons, Alva Myrdal remained a woman of personal gentleness...
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Lyrical account of a sad `Childhood'
; ...remarkable book. The parents -- Alva and Gunnar Myrdal -- were 1930s symbols of progressive...Walter Act. Sissela Bok's recent "Alva Myrdal: A Daughter's Memoir" (Addison-Wesl...overachieving family like the Myrdals, Alva and Gunnar from a narrative standpoint...
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