Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Consider the achievements since 1993 alone, when Bill Clinton invited Maya Angelou to be the first poet since Robert Frost to read an original work at a presidential Inauguration. George C. Wolfe won a Tony Award for his direction of Angels in America. Novelist Toni Morrison became the first black woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Rita Dove was appointed the country's first black poet laureate. Two works inspired by the Rodney King affair -- 56 Blows, a symphony by Alvin Singleton, and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, a one- woman docudrama by playwright and performer Anna Deavere Smith...
...retail front, the racks of audio books that have sprouted in bookshops are appearing in video and record stores as well. "The biggest problem we faced in growing this business was a lack of consumer awareness," says Jenny Frost, vice president and publisher of Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio. "Now people are finding them in retail outlets, trying them and discovering they think they are great." Inevitably, specialty stores have begun to crop up. Houston's BookTronics is one of the largest to carry nothing but audio -- with 8,000 titles for sale and rent. "We call ourselves the bookstore...
While Jewish students felt comfortable atHarvard before Hillel's founding, "they did notflaunt Judaism on campus, because of this Harvardman image," Frost says...
...when Harvard became a national universitythe structure broke down--there were a lot of bigchanges," Frost recalls...
Jewish students at Harvard were largely unawareof the Holocaust going on in Europe, Frost says...