Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago, you could say that constructive engagement was an excuse for a stand-pat policy, a do-nothing policy," says Thompson Professor of Government Martin L. Kilson. But he says the plan has allowed the U.S. to mediate the recent Southern African peace settlement, which ties the withdrawal of Cuban troops in Angola with Namibian independence from South Africa...
...memories. For this piano, the Charles family was torn asunder in slavery times: to acquire it, the white man who owned them traded away Doaker's grandmother and father, then a nine-year-old. On this piano, Doaker's grieving grandfather, the plantation carpenter, carved portrait sculptures in African style of the wife and son he had lost. To Doaker's hothead older brother, born under the second slavery of Jim Crow, the carvings on the piano made it the rightful property of his kin, and he lost his life in a successful conspiracy to steal...
...rest of the cast is equally fine, notably S. Epatha Merkerson as Berniece and Lou Myers as the dissolute uncle Wining Boy, who leads family members in musical interludes that include a haunting, African-influenced chant. Director Lloyd Richards needs to tinker with the ending, a sort of exorcism in which a sudden shift from farce to horror does not quite work. But already the musical instrument of the title is the most potent symbol in American drama since Laura Wingfield's glass menagerie...
Plus a course in the politics of southern Africa (professor: Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Crocker), a tutorial on neoconservative thought (professor: Irving Kristol of the American Enterprise Institute), and a briefing on the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) by Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb. And all for just one pupil: Vice President J. Danforth Quayle...
DUTCH LANDSCAPE. Dramatist Jon Robin Baitz, 26, who made a splash with The Film Society, echoes its South African setting in this autobiographical work, premiering at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum...