Their disordered, unbounded compositions and improvisations, not to mention their wild multimedia performances complete with face paint, conceived of music as a model for black collective action: music offered freedom, yes, but it offered unity, too.
Boyd's gift is to offer both unity and diversity.
Perhaps it is about humanity's agonised sense — which gets worse as death approaches — that making sense of things is impossible, that language, art and the act of love offer a unity which is a mere transient confection.
That depends almost entirely on the hopemonger himself, and how the president-elect takes advantage of this warm window of opportunity to make good on his offer of unity and purpose.
Rather than an empty call to national unity, Obama offered one of the most full-throated defenses of liberalism that this or any other president has delivered – and he did so in the shadow of unquenchable internecine political conflict.
Instead of excitement, Mr. Cheney offers solidity, unity and, based on his record at defense, toughness.
France believes that this approach, which was also the one proposed by the Secretary General in his message to the Council, is the only one that can offer us the unity, cohesion, fairness and legitimacy so crucial to the effectiveness of our action.
On February 28th the opposition coalition rejected the president's offer of a unity government and chose to join the protests instead.
The current president, Mohammed Waheed Hassan, made the offer of a unity cabinet in what appeared to be an effort to tamp down sometimes violent clashes between security forces and backers of the former president, Mohamed Nasheed.
It could therefore be suggested that in certain aspects of the legal framework of the EU, in particular those that pertain to the rights of the individual, there are wider normative aspects to European integration and which offer bonds of unity through solidarity.
