Word: echo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When you have 8,000 applicants it is impossible to check every aspect of every file," says Andy P. Cornblatt, assistant dean for admissions at Georgetown Law. "The best check I know is to listen to the person's letters of recommendations, which should echo [from one writer to another...
...British playwright whose first film (Truly Madly Deeply) was also about love beyond death, gives care to the segue of image and sound from one scene to the next, to the performers' intonations and gazes, to snatches of dialogue--say, a phrase as glancing as "Yes. Absolutely"--that may echo an hour later to haunt the characters...
...easy to look around and see sameness, to find friends that echo your interests and backgrounds and agree with your world views. And sometimes (especially in this post-randomization era) friends like that are important. But sameness gets boring and stagnates quickly. In our dining halls (if not in our third-place classrooms) we have the unique opportunity for the most incredible learning of our lifetimes as we explore together in search of a fit for all the peculiarities of our size and self--small, medium, large and otherwise...
...when Clinton said, "Our job is to give people the tools to make the most of their own lives," the echo was distinctive. He was exactly where he had been four years before, when, speaking equally of rights and responsibilities, he seemed to realize instinctively that voters wanted a minimalist but compassionate national government. So Clinton went forward by reaching back to the preliberal American tradition that sought to empower citizens with programs like the G.I. Bill, the Homestead Act and Land Grant colleges...
...curtain, and enact the body language of victory--thumb up, quick-flash smile, the arm that doesn't hold the pen punching the air in a go-get-'em arc. The crowd would always stand and applaud. "We love you, Bob!" someone would yell, and the unmuffled sound would echo too well, because the hall was always half empty...