Word: crescendo
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Even if such a session doesn't make a mockery of academic rigor, advance question exams reward sloth and punish initiative. If you've loyally gone to class, you can expect a crescendo of phone calls from distant acquaintances starting in reading period and culminating two days before the exam. After a day or two the pattern becomes recognizable...
...raising these youths on images of sex and violence. Some will blame less than ideal home lives. Some will blame monetary troubles, some unresponsive teachers. Some will blame you, some will blame me, and many will blame themselves. But as this false chorus of collective culpability reaches a crescendo, the real guilty party can still he heard if you listen carefully enough. He is the boy laughing while another lies choking on his own blood...
Hovahness' hypnotic "Prayer of St. Gregory" was as etheral as its name implies. The strings shone, the seconds lending an undulating underpinning to the melody. In several spots 'hanging' half-decrescendos followed crescendos and were followed by a second crescendo, swelling and breathing, breathy and lively. A particularly animated Christ inhaled loudly and gestured extravagantly with the music, seemingly as enraptured as the audience...
...Crash, screaming, wild music.] Honey, I'm home! [More screaming, wild music, sound of axe hitting door.] Heeeeeeere's Johnny! [Wild music building to crescendo...
...Clear the square!" Those were the orders that Li Peng gave in 1989 in response to a crescendo of student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square. The West rightfully responded with a chorus of denunciations. Now, as reform inevitably creeps over the Great Wall, people like Li will soon be on their...