Word: unison
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...been giggling and having fun, and so had they. And then their voices rose in "Fair Harvard". There were a thousand of them or more. Pink faces, a sea of them...and young. Their voices rose in unison. I thought of thousands of other young faces in Europe's war (we weren't in It then) whose voices weren't raised in song. Whose voices would never be raised in song again...
...only compensation for the Germans was that by holding out for three weeks after their ultimate doom was sealed they prevented all the Red Armies in the south from striking in unison. Said Berlin: "The conclusion of this military venture supplies the epilogue to a military undertaking whose history will be written with the blood of heroic fighters...
...twenty to a hundred or more cute rodents. They feed them, pet them, train them, and give them cerebral lesions. Sometimes a rat bites a student, but the average rat is a pretty good egg. They sit up in humanoid poses, coyly cock their wee heads, and squeak in unison in the darkened cages. Millions of 'em. One gets out of his cage once in a while, and there are always several bandit rats (Independents) scampering around the floor and peeking out with one eye from behind the radiators and garbage cans. Nobody minds much, but once in a while...
...which artisans and farmers still knew from the Middle Ages, but which the musically literate upper classes had begun to scorn. In Boston the one-eyed crippled tanner, William Billings, was even bolder. He got the cello into church, and the much more needed pitch pipe. Against the ancient unison of the psalms he offered "fuges." For greater dissonance he recommended the braying of an ass, the filing of a saw, the squealing of a hog "who is extremely weak," the "cracking" of a crow, the howling of a dog, the squalling of a cat, "and what would grace...
Billings' songs took religious music back to "its prime source, the dance." His own prime source was balladry. He further disturbed a time when "the close spiritual identities that had produced the concentrations of unison were going or had gone." Miss Rourke calls him as great a democratic force as Shays's Rebellion...