Word: glees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there that he learned the power of racial stereotypes. Tall and dark complexioned, Staples noticed he inspired fear in whites when he approached on the sidewalk. At first he sought to reassure them by whistling Vivaldi. Then he found malicious glee in frightening them in a game he called "scatter the pigeons." One night he hid in the shadows, then sprang in front of a white couple: "The two of them stood frozen as I bore down on them. I felt a surge of power: these people were mine . . . If I had been younger, with less to lose...
...middle-class home. Here the mother still mourns the death of her daughter, who would have been Mui's age. The father luxuriates in a torpid guilt. Upstairs Grandma intones prayers for the family dead. Downstairs the couple's three boys make mischief. The youngest taunts Mui with merciless glee; he is just about the only sign of wayward life in this house-and-garden mausoleum...
...mainstream media has been dishing up the dirt lately, much to our untrammeled glee. For example...
...questionnaire was distributed to studentsin the Radcliffe Choral Society and theHarvard-Radcliff chorus. Members of the Glee Cluband the Collegium Musicum, both of Asking forstudent input regarding the choral department isnothing unusual, Epps said, since "that'sconsistent with what Harvard does in classes...
...asking whether she's good conductorand a good musician and good for Harvard, theanswer to those is yes," said Daniel B. Curl '64,who is a member of the executive committee of theHarvard Glee Club...