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...Pulitzer, which makes Wilson one of only seven dramatists to win at least twice (the others, besides O'Neill: George S. Kaufman, Robert E. Sherwood, Thornton Wilder, Williams and Edward Albee), is for his play The Piano Lesson, which after extensive regional tryouts is opening on Broadway this week. Outwardly, it has much in common with Fences, which won Wilson the Pulitzer in 1987: it portrays a conflict among members of a black family over whether to hunker down under white racism or risk ambition and disappointment. But unlike Fences, a kitchen-sink drama firmly grounded in reality, Piano Lesson...
...nation watched intently as the abortion issue took center stage in gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia this fall. Pro-choice Virginia governor Douglas Wilder's victory over his anti-abortion opponent received almost as much attention as the fact that Wilder, the descendant of slaves, is the first Black to be elected governor since Reconstruction...
MOVE OVER, JESSE. Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder, a moderate black leader, may end up stealing some of Jesse Jackson's thunder. His state party chairman, Paul Goldman, is eagerly mapping out 1992 scenarios, and Wilder's travel plans suggest far more than a mere vice-presidential bid. He has visited California twice in the past two weeks, and is poised to announce a foray into New Hampshire this spring. Can Iowa be far behind...
What's more, last month's crack in the highly overvalued Tokyo stock market makes the Japanese seem a little less superhuman. The even wilder overvaluation in Japanese real estate could one day make them look downright mortal, sending shocks around the world. And America's new goals for education by the year 2000, which the nation's Governors unveiled last week, aim in exactly the right competitive direction. The goals may seem fanciful -- one is to make American kids first in the world in math and science -- but are they that much more fanciful than the goal...
...think that Jackson was a monomaniac who refused to accept defeat gracefully. You can also believe that other Black leaders who have recently moved up the political ranks--such as newly-elected Governor L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia--have made Jackson's day of "outsider politics" a thing of the past...