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...academic success per?se is a significantly inferior quality in a community where creativity and brilliance at the ideal, where men pride themselves on their capacity to spend a semester directing plays, then walk ? to an exam and do as well as a woman who has spent the semester gri?fing...
...hand for the Police Athletic League ball at the Sheraton-East. Such recognized society names as Mrs. Winthrop W. Aldrich, Mrs. Michael Phipps and Mrs. John R. Fell made an appearance, but most went home early, leaving the glamorous matrons with such first-name tags as Dee-Dee and Gri-Gri to dance the Twist. The proceeds (at $50 a ticket) amounted to $15,000; everybody had a grand time, and any stranger could tell that the ballgoers were glad to have a Police Athletic League in need of charity...
...days later, the apprentice's sweater is found washed up on the beach. The townspeople, surex that Grimes has committed another murder, head offstage on a new hunt, chanting now near, now far: "Peter Gri-imes ... Peter Gri-mes." As Peter appears on stage, clearly out of his mind, the orchestra is silent; the only sound to be heard is an eerie foghorn. His friend Balstrode warns him to "sail out . . . then sink the boat," before the mob finds him, and Peter Grimes obeys...
...Britain. Englishmen thought the swarthy nomads were Egyptians, shortened the word to gypsies. Gypsies did not mind. To them all gorgios (nongypsies) were boro dinellos (big fools) to be tricked and preyed on by the jinni Romanis (clever gypsies). Except for the contacts inevitable in dukkering (fortunetelling), dooking gri (casting a spell on horses to lower their value and price) or drabbing baulor (poisoning a farmer's pigs so that the gypsies could buy the carcasses cheaply for food), gypsies wanted no part of the respectable gorgios' world, ways or wars...
Question: Resolved, that the supporters of the Populist party have substantial gri-vances, which their movement is likely to relieve...
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