Word: underclass
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...wore skirts to dinner every night and waited until the Head Resident led the procession into the dining room. After dinner, coffee was served in the Living Room. All the underclass persons waited on tables on a rotating basis...
...Shakespeare production on campus. It never rains but it pours, though, and many are wondering what caused this sudden flood. Edelman credits the plethora of Shakespeare to "Coincidence, as well as the general Arts First swelling and the relative ease of doing a production late in the semester." Though underclass students may wonder what is so easy about finding free time late in the semester, for senior directors the time could not be better for one last show. "I'd directed a play last spring, and I wanted to try one more play before I graduated," said David Egan...
...make a decision for their children." His hands reach out as he speaks. His eyes are animated, especially when the subject is education or the need to treat immigrants with respect. "This sounds like rote," he told TIME after unspooling a riff on how to improve schooling for the underclass. "It's not! It's what I believe! It's not somebody writing a speech for me. It's my passion...
...politicians, burbling over how to educate the underclass, would do well to stop by Room 56 this week, as Rafe Esquith's fifth-grade class mounts its annual Shakespeare play. There are few costumes--mainly T shirts inscribed with an image of the Bard under the words WILL POWER. Most of Esquith's 29 pupils are classified as gifted or high achievers, but that hardly guarantees success in an environment where poverty and gangsterism are endemic. Some of his incoming students this year "didn't know two times three," he says. "Four of them couldn't write a sentence...
...album is brought down somewhat by the well-intentioned, though somewhat dumb, lyrics. Alleging, however, that the government is at once trying to "exterminate the underclass" and "exterminate the telepaths" ("Exterminator") does tend to make a mockery of the band's stated anti-fascist message. To the Scream's credit, though, the Sex Pistols, obvious inspirations here, did have sillier lyrics. It's an album the Pistols would have liked: it bodes well for the future of rock...