Word: crescendo
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...youngsters began babbling about themselves as soon as they could talk, kept it up in a great four-year crescendo. At the age of 2 their chief interest outside themselves was in objects. By the time they were 6, that external interest had shifted largely to persons. "The pre-school child," Dr. Fisher reported, "is a confirmed egotist and extremely sociable. He satisfies both needs by talking incessantly to other people, telling them whatever he happens to be doing at the moment...
...willing to overlook the irregal appearance of Claudette Colbert and the small town chattiness of Roman teaparties, the picture is a good spectacle. For sheer sensual spectacularity it would be hand to beat the scene where Anthony is first seduced. Food and wine, ballet and flowers with a final crescendo of the music and the solemn beating of the chronandros as the galley puts out to sea is very hard to forget...
...Mozart festivals to include the works of other composers, converted the old Winter Riding School into the Festspielhaus, to seat 1,400. From its opening month ago with Bruno Walter conducting the Eroica funeral march in honor of murdered Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, the Festival has sounded a steady crescendo of enthusiasm. The climax everyone wanted to hear arrived last week when Toscanini picked up his baton before the Vienna Philharmonic. In honor of Mozart, he opened his program with the D Major Symphony. Salzburg audiences this year have showered flowers on Mengelberg, applauded Felix Weingartner and Clemens Krauss, cheered themselves...
Suddenly the passing of a solitary automobile shatters the stillness; the regular throbbing of the night falters, the all but unbearable pressure of the vast silence is relieved. Then almost imperceptibly the lost beat gradually resumes its monotonous crescendo; the night, forcing down more determinedly than ever, creeps in around the edges of the dirty window, even permeates the very brick wall of the Vagabond's room. It crushes in, and constricts all his senses to a dazzling pin-point of luminosity a vast distance within itself; in the empty void about it swirl shapeless visions, as badly squared...
After the Minnesota mortgage case, the nation's press raised its voice to welcome the new liberality of the court, its new philosophy of government and of society. The milk decision has given rise to the same comment, in crescendo, and we are told that the rights of property must now give way to the rights of individuals. But, just as in the Minnesota case, he decision was given on emergency grounds, the present decision frankly bases itself on Justice Holmes' ideas of legislative supremacy. In other words, it is liberal only insofar as legislatures tend to be more liberal...