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Nolan, editorial chairman of the Crimson, wrote his award-winning article about Harvard's denial of tenure to Associate Professor of History Bradford...
August Wilson's first commercially produced work, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, ran more than eight months on Broadway, won the 1985 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best play and marked the emergence of a substantial new voice for the American theater. A self-taught man who dropped out of school in the ninth grade, Wilson, 41, announced ambitions for a cycle of ten plays meant to reveal black life in each decade of this century. Ma Rainey depicted the self- imposed racial isolation of a 1920s blues singer. His second play to reach Broadway, Fences, which opened...
...performance, much of the play's power comes from James Earl Jones, who has not had a part so well suited to his prodigious talents since The Great White Hope won him a Tony Award in 1969. The show originated in April 1985 at the Yale Repertory Theater, staged then as now by Y.R.T. Artistic Director Lloyd Richards. As his interpretation has ripened, Jones has found not only Troy Maxson's destructive fury but also his belly-shaking laughter, his lyric love of tall tales, his quicksilver charm, his stoic sense of duty and honor. & He manages...
...work of young Japanese architects acquires cachet and stirs interest around the world, it is fitting that the elder statesman of Japanese design, Kenzo Tange, 73, should become the first of his countrymen to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize. The $100,000 award, announced last week, went to one of the most important modernists of his generation, a master builder who can point to a body of work that is large, far-flung and confident. Tange was a committed and conscientious designer in the International Style during its heyday, a modernist who resisted the easiest answers of modernism during...
...sophomore center Tony Hrkac will claim the 1987 Hobey Baker Award today as college hockey's most valuable player. It's a well deserved honor...