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Last week the sound and fury of his performance reached a new crescendo. On Sunday night he scheduled a 30-minute speech before both houses of the legislature, wound up delivering a 2-hr. 16-min., arm-waving, name-calling harangue. He fumed about influence-peddling under the Capitol roof and roundly lashed such former allies as his ex-law partner, Clem Sehrt of New Orleans, and Leander H. Perez, the powerful political boss and district attorney of Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes. Said Earl of Perez (who once played a key role in saving Huey from impeachment): "He would...
Breaking the Will. Something of deep significance to China, to Asia and all the world occurred in the last six months of 1955. The crescendo of terror in 1951 and the skillfully timed and carefully calculated applications of terror since had their cumulative effect. One of the most enduring and resilient of peoples apparently gave up hope. Whatever those hopes had been-an internal breakdown, a return of the Formosa Nationalists, or simply, in the words of U.S. Secretary of State Dulles, "hope from without"-six years of unremitting terror had finally crushed them. On this important fact most...
Simone Signoret has had enough. She flees, and Vera fatalistically awaits her end, aided only by stubble-bearded Charles Vanel, an ambiguous private detective with the disconcerting habit of turning up in her bedroom at midnight to report his progress. The terrors mount to the satisfying crescendo of a Gothic nightmare as Vera, haunted by predawn whispers, creakings and rustlings, retreats to her own bathroom, finds the tub filled with water and containing the staring body of her drowned husband. She dies of heart failure, and Director Clouzot brings his masterly thriller to a shocker of a conclusion that...
Conductor Hugh Ross turned to the Tanglewood Choir and gave an incisive downbeat. Moderate, mezzo forte crescendo, basses and then tenors intoned the first portentous words: "Who must file." Sixty young voices joined in the first performance of a modern madrigal called Lament for April 75. Its lyrics: excerpts from the U.S. income-tax instructions...
...bumpy as those between General Electric Co. and the C.I.O.'s International Union of Electrical Workers. With out fail, the I.U.E.'s trigger-tempered Boss James B. Carey peppered the company with shouts of "chiseling," called its offers a "sham" and "an obvious trap." Once, in a crescendo of rage, he bellowed that G.E. was an "aid and ally" of the Communists. Usually G.E.'s negotiator, Vice President Lemuel P. Boulware, gave every bit as good...