Word: mountaintopã
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...last-ever speech, Martin Luther King intoned, “I’ve been to the mountaintop??I’ve looked over, and I have seen the promised land.” Today, many Americans see Barack Obama’s election as a sign that our society has reached the metaphorical promised land of racial equality. But only Barack Obama’s successes or failures in the coming years will determine his effect on race relations. If we act as though the journey towards equality is already over, we risk wandering the desert instead...
Beck’s typically nonsensical vocals this time have a dark tinge to them, spinning images of our techno-junk lifestyle that are complemented by the digital effects on almost every track. Lines like “We’re all pushing up a tin-can mountaintop?? are indicative of Beck’s jaded vision; he’s unhappy about something, but he’s too oblique to let on exactly what...
...hauntingly prophetic speech, the last oration he would ever give, King proclaimed in staccato phrases that he had “been to the mountaintop?? and that he had “seen the promised land...
...listened to him on the radio. Wherever I was, I was hearing those tapes of Martin Luther King, and I still get gooseflesh when I hear them and I still get tears in my eyes when I hear the ‘I’ve Been to the Mountaintop?? speech...
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