Word: caste
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...also observe social mobility. The particularly aggressive or nimble can pick their way to a seat and bravely cast aside noble jackets. Some opt to "drop out" and leave their seats and syllabi to the less fortunate...
...grand piano. A curved stairway leads up to the second floor, where daintily appointed meeting rooms play host to scores of organizations. The reading room--which houses an impressive collection of magazines and books--is situated to the left. If, on a winter's night, a traveler were to cast her gaze towards the right, she would likely espy the many rooms of the main dining area. Said dining area is decorated in the rococo style, with sturdy tables and chairs providing a much-needed visual respite from the ornate chandeliers and rugwork...
Janet Reno's selection as Attorney General last year, coming after two abandoned nominations, had a distressingly affirmative action cast...
Marks started to investigate, as did the Philadelphia Inquirer. Since the election, the Inquirer has found 333 Stinson voters who did not obey the law that restricts absentee balloting to those physically unable to get to the polls. Many of the fraudulent ballots were cast by Puerto Rican natives who say they were duped by people offering absentee ballots as "una nueva forma de votar" -- a new way to vote. "She said, 'Sign. I'll do the rest,' " recalls Carmen Silva, 55. "I signed. I didn't know for who or what." Others were encouraged to sign for members...
...performance, Krainik decided that the lighting design was unsuited to the Lyric's stage. "It would have cost us an extra $600,000 just to put up and take down the lights," she explains. So, undaunted, she hired a new director, designer, conductor and soprano to complement her original cast. Baritone Franz Grundheber's tormented Wozzeck, soprano Kathryn Harries' ripe Marie, Graham Clark's strutting Captain and Norman Bailey's Mengelesque Doctor, all under the commanding baton of Richard Buckley, brought Berg's acerbic, atonal ode to the lumpenproletariat to vivid, expressionistic life...