Word: kumbaya
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moore consistently reaffirmed his allegiance to the middle-class majority. Though his audience was supportive to the point of adulation, supplying ends for his sentences every time Moore paused, he did not hesitate to point a finger at what he saw as "Kumbaya"-singing intellectuals who spent all their time in meetings. "Aren't you tired of the left-wing circle jerk?" he demanded, insisting on the importance of intellectual liberals consolidating with working-class groups. "The working class knows that you feel superior to them," he admonished, and prescribed a diet of mainstream movies, TV, and country music...
...sing--it'll be a great concert, if the council doesn't somehow botch it, but that's all it will be. Students won't leave the concert feeling any more part of a college community than when it started. For that to happen, we might suggest a group "Kumbaya" sing-along in Sanders. But that wouldn't cost $15,000 of our money now, would...
...Kumbaya...
...Kumbaya," one player suggested. "You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Women," another said. Standing on the diving platform, Bassett instead chose "Happy Birthday," delivering a monotone, somewhat painful version of the classic. Needless to say, Bassett was roundly jeered by his fellow team members...