Word: lorde
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...curious new species. "The political turf of parody and satirists has almost always been left," Jeff Greenfield says. "It's one thing to attack liberals. But to be laughing at them -- that's when some people get crazy." Limbaugh calls the grandly elegant Secretary of the Treasury "Lord Bentsen." He calls the presidential counselor David Rodham Gergen...
...Good Lord," exclaims Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. "I don't have any [anxiety dreams]. I used to have one but it stopped a long time ago: I'm taking a math test and I don't know the answers...
...Seth," he said, "something's wrong...you're different from the other people I know. Sometimes that worries me." He sighed heavily and got up to make the trek back into his cave, muttering under his breath. "Oh lord, oh lord, my heavy heavy load...
...aesthetic reach of Sunday's "intellectual memorial" for W.E.B. DuBois owed much as well to the voices of Walter Robinson and Co. These voices proved more than equal to the haunting and soulful beauty of what DuBois deftly called the "Sorrow Songs"--the Negro Spirituals. The Singer of "My Lord, What A Morning" matched Marian Anderson at her best, and the beautifully disciplined improvisation on "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"--boldly folding over the classical Spiritual rendition with the classical or high-style Gospel mode--was something to behold...
American policy does not need more feelings. It needs, as George Meredith said, "More brain, O Lord...