Word: unison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play, the entire audience rose to its feet and surged down toward the stage. An immense (6 ft. tall) bouquet was sent up to the actors, who took 16 curtain calls, during the last three of which the audience chanted Scofield's name in unison. After the applause had been going on for so long that the actors felt the need to introduce some variety, they applauded the audience for their reception. Said Actor Alec Clunes, who played the king: "All through the performance the audience was very much with us. We didn't get as many laughs...
...neumatic system derived from the accents used in the Greek chorus to show which syllables rose, which fell. It was used for Gregorian chants, whose narrow tunes were intoned in unison by monks...
...grim, radical dogma that swept Britain after World War I. Youth today is not so much flaming to be free as burning to acquire discipline. It was Wyndham Lewis' ferocious hatred of what he called "emotionally excited, closely-packed, heavily-standardized mass-units acting in a blond ecstatic unison" that caused his unpopularity in the '305. although he himself acted in unison of a sort with the Hitler regime-but only for a very brief spell...
...pIayer orchestra and in the singers' melodic lines. But it provided a Lucullan feast of varying moods, from the poignant ending of the courtesan's part ("For me, too, prodigious Rome/ Could not protect from prodigious Rome") to the heartbreaking aria of the bereaved fishwife. The fine unison chorus at the end was as rousing as a latter-day Verdi's, and the pure major triad that sang out as the curtain fell was a real shocker...
...point during his long inquisition before the Diet, 76-year-old Shigeru Yoshida, Premier of Japan for seven years, began to defend himself, but lost his way through his notes. "Ah ... ah ... ah," he mumbled, shuffling his papers. "Ah ... ah ... ah," his enemies mimicked him in pitiless unison...