Word: sumnerism
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...success, however, New Order hid its face behind abstract or monochromatic album covers and performed entire concerts without ever addressing the audience. The cult grew. After the release of 1989's Technique, the band dispersed into various spin-off acts, most notably Electronic, which was fronted by singer Bernard Sumner and former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr...
...Sumner's vocals have become more relaxed, conveying conflicting shades of emotion. On World, he sounds almost wistful as he sings, "It may well be too late/ But I've no passion for this hate." On Special, the band's acerbic side surfaces briefly as Sumner sneers, "It was so special/ It was like water down the drain...
...represent anything from an ecological warning to a meditation on the fleeting nature of happiness. Either way, it shows New Order is willing to raise issues that go a lot deeper than the next dance-club craze. The sustained, chillingly solitary note that ends the album is mitigated by Sumner's impassioned exhortation to feel. After years of mining the bleak landscape of alienation, New Order seems to have discovered the value of its own humanity...
...right-wing activism on campus. Two new groups, the far-right journal Peninsula and AALARM, the Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religious and Morality, started up just as the Republican Club began staking out a more conservative and more outspoken stance under the leadership of then-President Sumner E. Anderson...
...Sumner E. Anderson...