Word: wonderments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Right above Stevie Wonder's great lines sits a passage of Steven Biko's testimony that eloquently discusses the meaning of Black consciousness. Now, if I were Stevie Wonder, I'd feel pretty silly comparing my two-line cliche that sold a bunch of records to monumental statements made by one of the best known martyrs to the cause of racial equality...
...rock lyricist who writes nearly as well as Pope or Dickinson, but some of these citations are just embarrassing. There are lyrics with more literary merit and more social impact than, "You are the sunshine of my life/That's why I'll always stay around." (Stevie Wonder...
...other hand, directly after Wonder's quote, the section labeled "Anonymous" begins by citing the Cuckoo Song form the year 1250: "Summer is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu! Groweth sed, and bloweth med, and springth the wude nu--Sing cuccu!" I suppose in the context of the latter, "You Are the Sunshine of My Life," doesn't sound so silly...
...editor unwittingly displayed sound judgment by putting Stevie Wonder between Biko and "Anonymous," for I suppose that that is where Wonder will land when historians and literary critics evaluate his impact...
...Stevie Wonder, however, is not the real problem. The problem is the judgment of the Bartlett's editors, who have put together a book which one hopes would show cultural progress but instead indicates cultural decay. Who cares if Muhammed Ali said, "I am the greatest?" Lots of other arrogant jerks have also said the same thing, but I don't see any cross-references...