Word: wilson
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...currency on the national scene--but not to the benefit of conservatives. Jesse Jackson has become the undisputed leader of Blacks partly on the strength of his call for young Blacks to recognize that despite their disadvantages they are "somebody." And it was a progressive Black sociologist, William Julius Wilson, who built a top academic career on arguments that racism fails to account for Black exclusion in America. His analysis has a strong class component...
...bitter city hall contest, Philadelphia Mayor W. Wilson Goode held a slim lead over former Mayor Frank Rizzo in his bid for a second term. With 92 percent of the ballots counted, Goode was gaining 51 percent of the vote to 49 percent for Rizzo, a former two-term Democrat who switched...
...Marshall W. Mason and a splendid young cast, it wins laughter in even its unnerving moments. If the narrative is indebted to the mainstream past, the tone has a more avant-garde echo of Sam Shepard -- a border skirmish between knockabout farce and knockdown violence. Yet Playwright Lanford Wilson manages to integrate well-crafted gags, mostly for the surviving gay roommate (Lou Liberatore). He describes his friend's gaudy casket as looking "like a giant Spode soup tureen." He says to the choreographer (Joan Allen) about her boyfriend (Jonathan Hogan), "I don't know why you don't just marry...
...Wilson won a Pulitzer Prize for Talley's Folly and Broadway acclaim for Fifth of July, companion pieces set on the same Missouri homestead. In Burn This, he reaches for a less sentimental key. But onstage the louder voice belongs to John Malkovich, a rising star (Death of a Salesman with Dustin Hoffman, Paul Newman's film of The Glass Menagerie) doing an Actors Studio- style star turn. As the intrusive brother, he slams in, bounces off walls, spews a stream of unapologetic profanity, all the while wearing -- at the actor's insistence -- a shoulder-length black wig that brings...
Burn and Daniel Burke, Secretary of the Treasury of Boston's School Board and teacher in the Roxbury school district, feel that education is the third key issue for these areas. Burke said Flynn's success among his Black constituency is in part due to the appointment of Laval Wilson, who is the first Black superintendent of Boston schools...