Word: prize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wilson, 42, brought his poignant Joe Turner's Come and Gone to Broadway last week, he had established himself as the foremost dramatist of the American black experience. His Broadway debut, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, ran nearly ten months and earned the 1985 New York Drama Critics Circle prize. Fences won the theater's triple crown -- the 1987 Tony, Pulitzer Prize and Critics Circle award -- and is still playing, having set a record for nonmusicals by grossing $11 million its first year...
This week the Pulitzer Prize Board meets at Columbia University to anoint 1988's winners. The prizes are also given for music, drama, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, history and biography, but it is the 14 journalism awards that will have champagne corks poised in anxious newsrooms. Before the bubbly flows, just one question: Is there a trick to winning? Members of the Pulitzer board insist there is none, but that has not stopped newspapers from playing shamelessly to the judges...
...entries are often elaborate productions. If a prize were given for the most overblown submission, the Arizona Republic might be a winner. It sent a scrapbook slightly larger than a full newspaper page (the board's expressed size limit), complete with a movie-poster-style cover. Inside, a five-page letter sang the praises of the Republic series on mismanagement in the Bureau of Indian Affairs and a thick stack of documents attested to the story's impact. "Next year I'm automatically going to vote against any entry that weighs more than I do," joked one weary reader. Juror...
...Asian American, a response to past charges that it was an all-white, all-male establishmentarian club. Robert Christopher, secretary of the board, insists that the days are long past when someone like the legendary New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock could strong-arm members into awarding a prize to a young politician named John Kennedy. But the suspicion of closed-door politicking endures. "My impression is that there is a fair amount of horse trading," says an editor whose paper is not a frequent winner...
...Executive Editor Eugene Roberts took over; only the New York Times has done better. Roberts says that those in search of the Inquirer's secret have even asked him what color paper he uses for his submissions. Observers contend that the Inquirer has mastered the art of packaging a prize-minded story. It's a great newspaper, says former Washington Post National Editor Peter Osnos, but "sometimes it seems to me they don't edit for the readers, they edit for the Pulitzer committee." Of course, like most of those that actually capture a prize, the Inquirer delivers. "Get that...