1.   Also being recognized are Benny Carter for lifetime achievement and Sonny Rollins for best instrumentalist.

2.   Among his many awards was a gold medal for lifetime achievement issued by the American Institute of Graphic Arts.

3.   An award for lifetime achievement in the theater was presented to Bernard Jacobs, the president of the Shubert Organization until his death last year.

4.   Another idea that has been proposed is to urge the White House to honor Schulz with a Kennedy Center award for lifetime achievement in the arts.

5.   Bitter passions lingering from the Cold War and McCarthyism flared anew Thursday when victims of blacklisting denounced awarding a lifetime achievement Oscar to film director Elia Kazan.

6.   -- The Poetry Society of America has conferred its prestigious Frost Medal for lifetime achievement to John Ashbery.

7.   A special award for lifetime achievement in the theater was presented to Paul Gemignani, a veteran musical director.

8.   A special Tony Award for lifetime achievement in the theater was given to the producer T. Edward Hambleton, founder of the Phoenix Theater.

9.   A special Tony for lifetime achievement in the theater will be given to Paul Gemignani, a veteran musical director.

10.   But an honorary gold medal for lifetime achievement went to Arthur Mitchell, the artistic director of Dance Theater of Harlem.