From the April 6 Valley News of Lebanon, New Hampshire, a story headlined “Professor Dumped by Dartmouth Receives Music Pulitzer”:
NEW YORK–A musical work by a former Dartmouth College professor and stories of oppression both home and abroad were rewarded with Pulitzer Prizes yesterday.
The award for music went to Tempest Fantasy by Paul Moravec, who has created more than 80 other compositions. He currently heads the music department at Adelphi University on Long Island, N.Y. Moravec taught at Dartmouth from 1987 to 1995, first as an assistant professor and then as an associate. He was denied tenure at Dartmouth in 1995.
Moravec, who was in Sicily yesterday, told the Valley News by telephone that the Pulitzer was, in part, “vindication” for his rejection by Dartmouth….
Revenge–the gift that keeps on giving.