Word: rita
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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 -- were rousing successes. Yusef Komunyakaa became the third black...
...National Book Award for fiction in 1990, explore the black experience in America. Still others, such as Wolfe, choreographer David Rousseve and writer Darius James (Negrophobia: An Urban Parable), dissect racial stereotypes, while those like choreographer Ralph Lemon and sculptor Martin Puryear reflect no identifiable racial content at all. Rita Dove summarizes the trend best when she says: "There are times when I am a black woman who happens to be a poet and times when I am a poet who happens to be black. There are also times when I am more conscious of being a mother...
Gustave M. Hauser, chair and CEO of Hauser Communications, and Rita E. Hauser made the joint gift to help the Law School "achieve its future growth and goal," Mr. Hauser said in an interview yesterday...
Gustave Hauser said his marriage to Rita Hauser added a special dimension to their gift...
...Rita Hauser, currently president of the Hauser Foundation, also serves on the visiting committee to the Kennedy School of Government and the advisory council for Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies...