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...came even more important points, recited another third higher in pitch. The speaker stated that this organization was actually a tool of the Harvard School of Public Administration--a bunch of professors. Boos, and deeper mutterings. "They even have Radcliffe girls passing out campaign literature," he closed. A crescendo of boos, mutterings and threats from the audience followed...
Like a runaway Wagnerian opera, Fountainhead lumbers from crisis to crisis in a hysterical crescendo of muddleheaded talk and stagy pretentiousness. Its final, most brassy explosion: an enormous, foreshortened view of Gary Cooper-presumably a hulking symbol of rugged individualism -straddling the topmost scaffolding of his new skyscraper. Apparently aimed at Communist and other critics of the American way, Fountainhead will provide some of the corniest grist for Soviet propaganda mills that Hollywood has produced in a long time...
...produced Riley, a radio show about one of those homey American families that persist in radio scripters' minds. Now he has put the program's star (William Bendix) and a cast of actors into an untidy little movie made up of short episodes and an endless crescendo of gags...
Arising with Drums. In the early 1900s, on every Easter morning, an orchestra hired for the occasion would roll into a kettledrum crescendo which just about lifted the roof off the Middletown (Conn.) Holy Trinity Church. It was Gounod's St. Cecilia Mass. The choir chanted: "I believe in one God . . ." Anda skinny little substitute crucifer, home from boarding school, would tell himself tremblingly: "Boy, I sure...
Bond of Blood. The second and last volume of The Diaries (the first appeared last year) reveals the crescendo of this torment, as it filled tuberculous Franz Kafka's own final years, up to his death in 1924, at 40. His father, a stolid and self-possessed businessman who was a living reproach to the introspective writer, was always at the center of his thoughts. He loved his father and admired him; he also feared and hated him. The "bond of blood too is the target of my hatred; the sight of the double bed at home, the used...