Word: crescendoe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...recital, its crescendo of horrors-some of which it would be unfair to reveal -The Bad Seed has gripping scenes and many chilling moments. And the play's quasi-realistic tone, its reassuringly middle-class atmosphere, enhance the sense of horror, often impart that sudden eeriness of the familiar, that peculiar credence of the incredible. And the play gets the accomplished acting it needs. As the child. Patty McCormack brings a convincing naturalness to her studied evil-doings; as the mother. Nancy Kelly fully and keenly expresses the role without ever merely exploiting its opportunities...
...toward an lights dimmed, and a long blue spotlight dipped toward an entrance. A pause, the Garden erupted with shrieks of glee as a slickly-tuxedoed figure advanced onto the stage. "It's said another, "Is only his brother, George." George stepped onto the podium, the orchestra blared a crescendo and this time even the initiates let loose as the spotlight picked up another tuxedo. All over the arena, carefully-concealed flashbulbs pulsed with white light...
...seemed to many irrelevant to "progress." Certainly the churchmen at Evanston could not try to provide earthly salvation, for that would be blasphemy; the kingdom of God must be sought for its own sake. But neither could they escape the atmosphere of urgency that surrounded their meeting. For the crescendo of ecumenical conferences of which Evanston is the climax† tells of a renewed Christian hope and a hunger for unity. These forces have brought together men and traditions that centuries of Christian history had driven asunder...
Monte Carlo's summer season reached a social crescendo with an anti-polio March of Francs party featuring two hours of husky-throated songs by Marlene Dietrich. But Marlene seemed almost an anticlimax to Poet Jean Cocteau's freshly penned introduction, eloquently recited by French Cinemactor Jean Marais: "Your name begins with a caress and ends with a whiplash. You wear feathers and furs which seem to be part of your body like the furs of beasts and the feathers of birds . . . There comes to us, in full sail, a frigate, a prow's figurehead, a Chinese...
What she most likes about her job, however, is not the records and statistics, but the students themselves. Describing her year's work, she cites the spring as the busiest time; "there is a steady crescendo of activity from mid-years on," she says. And yet it is this period that Mrs. Robinson likes best, when theses are due and pile up in her office, when honors records must be prepared, and when mark-seeking students either line up far out into the Holyoke. House hallway or just swarm wildly into Room 8. For it is then, she says, that...