European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Apm pm no l Mie Oscar Winner of hurray Abraham. Sarlay or thu a. David Halberstam 1964 pulitzer Prlia recipient. J. Anthony lust to Jitt Wal that  to Tel photo prize winners find glory bittersweet by Joseph Berger new York times w Well inning a major prize like a Nobel a pulitzer or an Oscar is generally regarded As an undiluted moment of glory but winners of such awards report that there Are sometimes bittersweet dividends As prize winners Tell of a puzzling Etc Liness and disappointment As Well As affirmation and financial Reward anxiety As Well As Eminence and entree. Some winners worry whether Ihetu next to will be up to the Standard of a prize. Others May feel that their prize was nol really deserved. Still others May experience the malaise that conies with wondering what worlds Are left for them to conquer. The play. Ighel Lanford Wilson who won a 1980 pulitzer for tatty s Folly told of several Young writers who said they Felt blocked after winning prestigious prizes and he said he could understand Why. Type this is the next play by last year s pulitzer prize Winner at the lop of a Page and try 10 write something underneath  he said. Or. Steven Berglas a clinical psychologist at the Harvard medical school and author of the Success syndrome explains that any Success experience particularly a Success marked by a prize heightens performance  internal pressures Are amplified from outside. Each time you achieve something significant. People look for the encore he said. Winners also worry that their prize was not really merited and that they will be detected As frauds people inside lend to eel a Little fraudulent arid winning the Moet prize highlights thai feeling said Arn Penzias. Winner of the 1978 prize for physics. Erma Bombeck you ass your own shortcomings not those of  some winners of scientific nobels Are said to feel that they were rewarded for work thai was not their finest or that was tha result of a serendipitous discovery that could jus As Well have been made by someone else Ollen. The envy of sortie colleagues who iry to undercut he work that led to he prize serves to confirm such doubts. In the aftermath o a prize some winners report a toss of Energy a feeling that they Are coasting and have Tost the hunger that drove them to achieve he Success. Unless you Are very competitive you Aren l Likely o function with the same vigor after Arti said Isidor i. Raff who won the Nobel prize in physics in 1941. You know it s like the lady from Boston who said Why should i Favel when i m already there " Harriet Zuckerman a sociologist at Columbia University who whole tha 1977 Book scientific elite Nobel lame ales in the United Stales found that the productivity of Nobel winners declined loan average of four scientific papers a year in the live years after their prize compared with six a year in the five years before. White some of Shis loss of productivity was due to age she found the loss was also the result of the distractions of increased celebrity and the inevitable regression toward the mean that operates in Many spheres of human  Berglas said some people withdraw Energy from their work because they resent admiration Given for an achievement rather Ihan for who they Are As a person you become subordinate to what you be done and you d like to be known As a person not a product he said. Another feeling thai accompanies a major prize or unexpected Success is one that was captured in 8 jest by Earl w. Wallace when he won he Academy award last year or Hia screenplay for in Ness. I have an uneasy feeling my career just peaked he told a nationwide television audience. J. Anthony Lukas said thai his feelings after winning the 1968 pulitzer for special reporting were largely sheer Delight but that there was an underside. Of course i wanted to win one very badly and once i had it there was this letdown he said. I worked 20 years in journalism now is there anything else to go after?1 Lukas won a second pulitzer last year for common ground his Book Aboul the Impact of Boston s desegregation plan on three families. The Book look seven and a half years to Complete and despite the prizes it won he remembers worrying what am i going to do with the rest of my life can i find something that i m obsessed about he remembers feeling. And there was a kind of panic hat i would never find something that i would care to much  he has apparently found such a project because a has signed a two Book contract Wilh Alfred a. Knopf inc. While popular opinion suggests that prize winners can relax Many prize winners report a Subtle increase rather Ihan a diminution in pressure to perform David Halben Tam. Who won a 1964 pulitzer for his reporting from Vietnam and emphasizes that his prize was overwhelmingly a Joy recalls nonetheless that for a while immediately afterwards you haled to put your name on any Story that was  in the Case of f. Murray Abraham who As a relatively unknown actor won an Academy award for amadeus the concern was Over the dramatic intensity that led to the award winning performance. Will i lose some of my intensity because things will get easier he recalled asking himself the tact is that he anxieties i had were replaced by new anxieties he said. No one communicates better than americans. Maybe it s because we were born to a free and open society thai permits us to express exactly How we feel. That and the tact that we All share a Universal language. There Are possibly Only two exceptions 1c the Universal language theory. One was in elderly neighbor of ours from Mississippi who did t have a tooth in his head. The other exception is communication Between women and their Hairdresser few can speak the tribal language fluently. I be seen women Sil in chairs and using every Bil of body language they can move say i want a Pouf Here and then wave it around to Hump Over the ear and make this glob go Back with a soil tapered swirly so this Bunch of hair can go Choo Choo Choo into a bang. Do you know whal i mean it s a time when vagueness is sent out to do Battle with a Man Wilh a razor Blade in his hand. Even simple instructions like How much hair to Cut Oft is lost to ambiguity. When a customer says just Lake a Little off a Little Means nothing to a Man who buys shampoo by the Case and Cotton by the Bale. Even in up is even worse. Even in up to what throughout the years there is possibly Only one phrase that is mutually understood by Hairdresser and customer alike. That is it la grow  i Don i know Why. But it seems to make everyone feel better. Some women Lave Given up on the language altogether. They communicate by pictures ripped out of magazines. They sit in the chair take the picture out of their by Tlok Point to it and then say clumsily me Victoria principal look co Prende it there is extreme laughter it is Wise to fold it and Pul it Back in your Billfold until another Day. A risky form of Exchange is 1he expression i m  this is interpreted by hairdressers to mean this is a Good Lime to try Oul the Madonna look where they apply three primary colors to the hair and use a Saber and pinking shears to Cut it. Once Whan i was in another City away from my regular Hairdresser i needed a trim and said to the woman Surprise  this is another phrase that should never be tossed around lightly. She interpreted the sword to mean Shock and or three months i looked like George Shultz with a migraine. Hairdressers Are professional. W