Word: echo
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...findings echo previous studies on the mental health toll faced by the more than 1.6 million U.S. troops deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. In a comprehensive survey released this month by the think tank Rand Corporation, researchers concluded that nearly 20% of returning military personnel from these two fronts - about 300,000 service members - suffer symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. Left untreated, PTSD and depression could cost the nation as much as $6.2 billion in medical care and indirect costs during the two years that follow deployment, the Rand researchers estimated. "We need to remove the institutional cultural barriers...
...tail ("The long tail/ of the copper pheasant") to evoke the wistfulness of a long, lonely night. The elderly Mrs. Ueda picked up without hesitation on the third line - "drags on and on" - and ended the poem with a smile. In the moment that followed, we both felt the echo of words that nimbly and delightfully spanned generations, cultures and centuries, and understood exactly why the Hyakunin Isshu is so enduring. Fujiwara no Teika may have shown the world a gruff, ill-natured and unlovely face, but no ogre had a heart more sentimental or more delicate...
Some of the real-life tragedies I have witnessed over the years echo Shakespeare. Bharti, a young Hindu, used to take refuge in our house in Kampala to escape her oppressive father; he tried to force her into a marriage and she killed herself. My chemistry teacher, also a Hindu, fell in love with a Muslim woman; her family whisked her off to Pakistan and he swallowed acid in the school laboratory, dying for love. A distant relative in Tanzania was charged with hiring killers to murder her oldest son, his wife and their babies because her husband threatened...
...clearer than on the back-to-back versions of “Remember When,” coyly labeled “(Side A)” and “(Side B)”: the former is a slow, quasi-psychedelic wash, while the latter is the echo of the old guard—a blistering, electroshock guitar blast virtually untouched by Danger Mouse. Quite frankly, it’s all the better for being left alone.But that’s the exchange “Attack & Release” makes: innovative song craft for raw power...
...their rush to secure affirmation of their own aggrandized images of Harvard, the Class of 2012—like so many classes before them—seems have forgotten this reality. Only now, more than ever, this forgetting happens collectively, in real time and in a vast electronic echo chamber of delusion. I have always found Harvard a great place, and I think in part this is because I never thought it was the greatest place. Harvard, like Yale, like Southern New Hampshire Community College, like village schoolrooms in Iowa—in short, like any place at all where...