Word: crescendo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million musical bravos (with crescendo) on your wonderful Gian-Carlo Menotti cover story [TIME, May 1] . . . Now I have a better picture of the man who has given me many hours of enjoyment, mingled with pathos and sentiments...
...provides the situation humor of the picture; the Earl's remarks are little gems that are usually quite irrelevant to the main flow of action. The other players are all well-cast and move gracefully out of the way when Mr. Matthews' commentaries reach a crescendo of bumbling...
...stylized acting is not very imaginative and lacks deep conviction. But her technique and voice are still basically excellent. Joseph Wiseman, as the court Peeping Tom who spreads scandal, talks inexorably and monotonously--like a passing freight train. At times he varies his performance with a pseudo-emotional crescendo, usually preceded by a strained gasp. Henry Daniell, as the king, is the most polished of the performers; he has an impressive bearing and a versatile voice. But the virtues of the acting do not compensate for the essential sterility of the play...
...rise. I glanced up. I looked into the face of an avalanche. Kendall had slipped, and fallen, too ... rolling down over the same thirty precipitous yards I had traversed . . . Sixteen hundred pounds of solid horseflesh rolled me flat. I could hear my own bones break in a sickening crescendo ... I lay paralyzed with pain-twenty-three of twenty-four ribs broken...