Word: crescendoe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were two good reasons why Sukarno's plan seemed doomed to fail: first, he insisted on including Communist sympathizers or fellow travelers in the Emergency Cabinet; second was a rising crescendo of protest from separatist leaders in Sumatra, the Celebes and elsewhere, who decried the Emergency Cabinet as unconstitutional...
Ellington at Newport (Columbia). An audible report on the highly charged performance of Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue, which set Newport bloods to stomping up the aisles last summer. Most notable: the supple solo by Tenor Saxman Paul Gonsalves, who lovingly rocks through no fewer than 27 choruses...
...tomb, and a chant just came to me"), the music tells in a plaintive harp opening of the Old Testament tribulations of the Jews, "blows down the Wailing Wall" in a mighty, jumping blast of brass, moves through a lively vibraphone dance to a deafening, full-orchestra crescendo of triumph...
...Crescendo. Before accepting the chancellorship, Litchfield persuaded his trustees to agree to a long-range, $100 million fund-raising campaign. The university has already taken over the old Schenley Park Hotel, where Lillian Russell was married, and is turning it into a new student social center. It also has the seven Schenley apartment buildings, which will become dormitories. Litchfield has given his faculty a 10% raise, cut from 28 to nine the number of officers reporting to him directly, given Pitt its most streamlined administration in its 169-year history...
...before midnight. Though he claims that he has not really begun to concentrate on fundraising, he has stirred up enough enthusiasm to bring in $2,000,000 in the last six weeks. Even more important is the new spirit he has generated on his campus. "Things have reached a crescendo," says he. "I've never seen a faculty or board of trustees as enthusiastic for change. It makes all the difference in the world for someone sitting in my seat...