Word: cuphoria
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Black Chicagoans' cuphoria over the 36 percent of the Democratic primary votes that gave Harold Washington victory over his two white opponents--Jane Byrne and Richard M. Daley--had barely subsided before conservative pundits in Chicago and elsewhere began equating the 80 percent ethnic-bloc vote that Blacks gave Washington with anti-democratic or racist behavior. This disingenuous equation of ethnic-bloc voting with anti-democratic behavior holds that ethnic of racial cohesion in electoral politics is intrinsically irrational, sanctioning emotional and atavistic styles of political behavior. Though there is a superficial plausibility to this sort of reasoning it doesn...
...aisle, wavering demanding an encore. He finally took off his shoe and starting beating on his seat with it. He was there long after everybody left. There is too much emphasis on the "upbest emotional experience," which now is no more than a demand for a drug induced cuphoria, and not enough pure appreciation of good music. I'm convinced that no one cares...
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