Word: crescendo
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...futility of the means which he has chosen to achieve them. If all the nation's industrialists were as realistic as Mr. Weir and Mr. Budd, if all saw as they do the weakness of Mr. Roosevelt's position, we should not have to wait so long for that crescendo in which the basic theme of our social structure will finally become manifest...
...Vindication of Natural Society" the most sincere expression of his political philosophy; we can, with an effort, keep our gorge down when he says he can never forget a certain line in "Kubla Khan" and proceeds to mangle its beauty by misquotation. But when, after rising in a valiant crescendo of commonplace through pages and pages of the quintessential trite, he comes forth with the astounding conclusion that "Literature is Life," we can only throw down the book and gasp...
...this atmosphere, and as an integral part of it, appears Victoria Van Bret; guardian of the Van Bret millions, tyrant of the Van Bret household. Around the commanding presence and warped soul of this queenly spinster revolves a tense drama of hate and fear, swelling in an unvarying crescendo of emotional strain to a brilliant climax in the last scene. "Double Door" is not a great play, but it is one of the most effective utilizations of a single atmosphere to achieve a high degree of emotional response from the audience that this reviewer has seen...
...admit that the man who is supposed to have lost their money for them is the only man who has much prospect of getting it back again. Samuel Insull did not pervert the systems of capitalistic finance, and he is not a big had wolf. Only in the crescendo does the theme become manifest, and only in a simon-pure capitalist like Mr. Insull do the real implications of capitalism become obvious and legible...
...looking at time is backwards, over one shoulder. His story of a spinster's life begins with her death sentence, ends with the interview in her girlhood that lost her her lover. This reversal of the time sequence has a natural advantage of giving the story a marked crescendo. With his second book, Author Coxe has come a long stride forward since his first novel (Passage to the Sky). First Love and Last is a cleanly written, intelligent, first-rate...