Word: unisonal
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...from the inside of seven maximum-security prisons. With the exception of Leavenworth, all are state institutions. Most of these places are famous in American folklore and in grim modern history. Their names evoke images of riots in the yards, of searchlights and sirens, of tin cups banged in unison on the tables of gothic mess halls. The normal reality of prison life is, of course, calmer, but no less extraordinary. These are societies made up largely of people who have robbed, attacked and murdered other people, after all, and of those who oversee them. No world they compose could...
...version of the frog story "pessimistic" and "not entirely clear." Grau is at this point a propaganda official in the short-lived Hungarian revolutionary regime of 1919, so he has the authority to rewrite the nation's folklore. In his revised version, the frogs croak so loudly in unison that they frighten less organized animals away. Says Grau: "A society which does not possess its people's dreams is not a society in control of itself...
...heralded not with a bang but with a burst of light. The 35,000 baseball fans in Tiger Stadium watching a game gasp in unison at the preternatural dazzle. The people in the stands who face the fireball are blinded by it. An instant later they and the rest of the crowd are on fire. But the pain ends quickly: the explosion's blast wave, like a super-hardened wall of air moving faster than sound, crushes the stands and the spectators into a heap of rubble...
Neither the fear of possible violence nor the heat sapped the enthusiasm of the housewives, laborers, students and professionals for the man they had come to support. As the preliminary speeches droned on, they began to chant his name in unison: "Duarte! Duarte! Duarte!" The cheers reached a crescendo as José Napoleón Duarte, leader of the Christian Democrats and President of El Salvador's civilian-military government, appeared on the makeshift podium...
Most crowd response is favorable, though especially when the band comes up with an original cheer. After the Quakers made their first basket last Sunday, the Penn fans threw dozens of red and blue streamers onto the court. Minutes later, the band yelled in unison: "Roses are red. Violets are blue: the streamers were cute, but you still live in Philadelphia." The crowd loved...