Word: unison
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What most of my peers are missing out on: chicken fights and games of Red Rover on Saturday mornings, obscenities chanted in unison, trips on the raunch bus, drag parties, toga parties, no pants time (think about it...), stays at the Harvard Club of New York City (okay, on the floor), random trips to Florida and Minnesota, parades where kids dress up as ducks, great seats at official University events, alcohol, the love of the athletic department, the respect of the administration and the appreciation of my fellow undergraduates for all that we do to cheer on other Harvard students...
Spectators cheered not only for the crews of their team’s color, but also cheered in unison as the U.S. national teams passed...
...grim litany rings out in every synagogue in the country every year, last Thursday included. A key passage in the liturgy for Yom Kippur, the somber Jewish holiday of repentance, bids believers to speculate on the ways to die. "Who by fire and who by water," they read in unison. "Who by the sword and who by wild beasts, who by famine and who by drought..." It is a hard passage. Wild beasts? There are usually some raised eyebrows...
...than the last one (two quarters, the minimum period of contraction that qualifies for the R word), the downturn will be over almost as quickly as it became apparent. Recessions typically last nearly a year. The recent attacks, though, make everything different. Economic gatekeepers are in rare and sudden unison...
...exemplifies this glorious self-revelation, and is also perhaps the most accessible and simply appealing track, with its soaring, choir-backed chorus. It is the overture to the more involved pleasures of the rest of the album, which culminate in the long, seductive curve of “Unison,” which builds slowly over subtle clicks and rattles while the harp supplements Björk’s devastating voice, finally given full rein after an album of largely downplayed numbers. In the end, the song dissolves into arpeggiated harp patterns, and a looped keyboard swirl as Bj?...