Word: kumbaya
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...simply regrettable when we were doing it" reflects the arrogance of power - the West sets the agenda of what is admissible, simply because it can. So don't expect that after eight days of talking, the delegates are going to be holding hands while Kofi Annan leads them in 'Kumbaya...
...Leninist-hippie types is that this form of intellectual property infringement increases social awareness. Only through the free distribution of artists' work can we be educated in the immense diversity of music in its many incarnations around the world. The great Internet will allow us all to sing Kumbaya together if only we could light the Sterno flame under the melting pot with unlimited distribution of copyrighted materials...
...bunk style in Loker Commons and convinced that toting their toiletries across the Yard was more fun than bathing across the hall. Had they had any talent aside from their charming smiles and intimate knowledge of the Love Story script, the Key counselors would have sung them Kumbaya as they fell asleep, not to the crackling of a campfire, but to the sirens of neighboring fire trucks...
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...