Word: declaim
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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...Wilson's most delicate and mature work, if not necessarily his most explosive or dramatic. It has none of the adrenal family confrontations of his two Pulitzer prizewinners, Fences (1987) and The Piano Lesson (1990). This one never telegraphs the moments when it is going to turn philosophical and declaim what it means. Although the subject is nothing less than the whole range of political, social and philosophical options by which black people have lived for the past couple of decades, the story remains, to all appearances, a glimpse of everyday existence circa 1969 in a run-down Pittsburgh luncheonette...