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...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...
...cuts like Beige to Beige and What If I Came Knocking, both of which reaffirm Mellencamp's knack for exuberantly melodic rock 'n' roll. The record ends, appropriately, with To the River, on which Mellencamp dives "down to the undertow" and declares, "Well, the deeper I drown/ Lord, the higher I'll go." The lyric, with its suggestion of cleansing renewal, demonstrates the essential optimism at the core of Mellencamp's dire vision and his faith in the healing power of music. By venturing into the urban wilderness, Mellencamp has discovered the core of the American soul...
American policy does not need more feelings. It needs, as George Meredith said, "More brain, O Lord...