Word: cappella
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...occasion was the Harvard-Yale weekend a cappella concert involving two Harvard groups--the Dins and the Pitches--and two groups from Yale--the Whiffenpoofs and the Whim N' Rhythm...
Fortunately for me, I don't have to submit to any more such "concerts." But no Harvard student--no matter how careful--can avoid the sickly sweet melodies and chipper smiles of a cappella groups in their classrooms, on posters and in their dining halls...
...first victimized by a cappella music as an innocent high school student. Visits to my school from several campus a cappella groups, from Bowdoin, Columbia, and Yale made me drowsy and nauseous. From the first "doo-wap," I found the music boring and all the songs the same...
...groups link themselves with the most banal and commercial of today's pop stars--people like George Michael and Phil Collins whose primary lyric is "I miss you, baby." With their pleasant, sleep-inducing hum, a cappella groups sing in a manner reminiscent of Muzak, that great piped-in music so often heard in certain Woolworth's branches...
...wanted no part of it. So after carefully perusing the Harvard application and finding no mention of a cappella groups, I decided to apply. Thinking Cambridge, Massachusetts was an a cappella free zone, I enrolled...