Word: crescendoe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peak of informality was reached at 9:59, when all one hundred musicians, in the midst of a big crescendo, suddenly rose, closed their music, and left the stage just in time to beat the Musicians' Union's deadline...
...that he had achieved just the right touch-and the box-office returns justified his little extravagance. For the big scene of The Greatest Show on Earth, now shooting, Producer DeMille's script ordered a train wreck with "a shattering impact of shattering steel and wood amid the crescendo of injured humans and screams of caged animals...
...House, bald, urbane Speaker Sam Rayburn called his charges to order promptly at noon in the Ways & Means Committee room. The clerk droned through the roll in a rising crescendo of bedlam and backslapping. The House knew, even though the Senate might not admit it, that what remains of the 81st Congress would be full of sound & fury, signifying nothing. The principal task of the lame-duck session, triumphant Bob Taft had said, was to "adjourn...
...hints alert the audience to distrust Eve, the early sequences make her wholly sympathetic. She seems "a lamb loose in our big stone jungle," humble, gracious, utterly devoted to the tempestuous big star (Bette Davis) who adopts her as a secretary-handmaiden. Subtly at first, then with fine crescendo effect, Mankiewicz reveals her as an ambitious fanatic who stops at nothing-deceit, betrayal, assignation, blackmail-to knife...
...clear that either is giving way. What is apparent is that the form of the struggle must change, though its substance perhaps cannot. One of the reassuring signs of the times is agreement upon what should not be the form of the struggle: war. The awful crescendo of the contest have been two world wars. Some heart may be taken in the certainly that neither East nor West can hopefully look forward to a bacterio-atomic war as the third great round...