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...Almira Stampp. When Noah and Almira were in the second grade, their white teacher made Almira stand in a wastebasket all afternoon-because, Noah explained, "she wouldn't say 'Yes, ma'am.'" Refused permission to go to the bathroom, Almira wet her pants. "See the pig in the pigpen," said the teacher to the class. Treatment like this inevitably had its effect on Almira (whose mother was a drug addict and whose father was in jail for a murder the child had witnessed). She became one of the school's infamous "bad kids," outwardly...
...life and interests of all oppressed people in this country. But you are a liar in both areas, and I know for sure that your and Mom's interests are never the interests of the people." Attacking white society, she said that she had learned how "vicious the pig really is." She added: "Our comrades are teaching me to attack with even greater viciousness, in the knowledge that the people will...
...story involves Jonas Acme, American capitalist, who makes pig-oil beer from smuggled pig-nuts. Acme, with somewhat convoluted logic, explains that as long as the American working man drinks pig-oil beer, he will not rebel...
...tube, and awards it to the rightful owner--the giant rat of sumatra, which for centuries has watched over the tube in the temple of Ampere-Watt. The English-man is very proper and aesthetically motivated. Class war is avoided, and Jonas Acme continues to grease the proletariat with Pig-oil beer--which doesn't make this record very revolutionary...
...Richard Carey handles the brogue well, he's just too sanguine for any man--regardless of nationality. Bob Acres is another stereotype, the country bumpkin. Bernard Holmberg is at first intriguing in this role, but as the night wears on, his loud cartoon-like performance highlighted by his porky-pig laugh wears...