Word: descant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impact of steel meeting solid, razor-sharp ice. Then the music emerges as if from a watery grave, half heard and half perceived, a stately, contemplative hymn solemnly intoned by a string sextet. A brass choir picks up fragments of the tune, while a boys' chorus adds a heavenly descant of Kyrie Eleison. From time to time, scraps of sound emerge from the wreckage-buckling bulkheads, rushing water, disembodied voices of the survivors, alarm horns honking futilely across the cold North Atlantic-but as the great ship settles beneath the waves, the music continues in its calm, imperturbable course...
...floors of mydorm to house WAVES. Marching into Briggs, in theniftiest uniforms, these hearty young women soondisgusted us by leaping from their beds at an hourwhen most of us had barely crawled into ours, toperform loud, thumpy calisthenics in hallways,then marching around our Quad shouting theiranthem (a rousing descant on "Anchors Aweigh...