Word: crescendoe
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Nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords . . . At the end, the refrain, "I'd love to turn you on," leads to a hair-raising chromatic crescendo by a full orchestra and a final blurred chord that is sustained for 40 seconds, like a trance of escape, or perhaps resignation...
Time for a Fix. Finally, the crescendo of bargaining-table bluff, bravado and compromise came to an end. U.S. Chief Negotiator William M. Roth said in Washington, while Deputy W. Michael Blumenthal handled the signing, that under the new deal the industrial nations of the Kennedy Round would come out pretty much "in balance." The Common Market, long under fire for its unconscionably discriminatory duties, will gradually revert to the low tariff level of Germany in pre-Common Market days. Still, the Six would not tinker at all with high rates on electronic computers, automated machine tools, helicopters and other...
Bluff & Brinkmanship. The key agreements, hammered out in a crescendo of bluff and brinkmanship between the U.S. and the Common Market last week in Geneva, fell a long way short of John Kennedy's hopes when he persuaded Congress in 1962 to empower the President of the U.S. to chop tariffs by 50%. Though levies on many industrial items would fall by the full 50%, the average tariff cut will amount to no more than 25% on the goods that make up the $180 billion in annual trade among non-Communist countries. Washington figures that the reductions, phased over...
...safari of as many as 500 relic collectors can be found crisscrossing carefully over the once bloodied ground. Each wears earphones connected to a long-handled ground-sweeper disk, powered by transistor batteries, which transmits a constant hum through the earphones. Whenever it finds metal, there is a sudden crescendo to the hum, the signal to dig for an antique that may be anywhere from an inch to 6 ft. down, since little of any value is left on the surface any more...
This vear's Bach Society failed to live up to the expectation of authenticity which it aroused. Though classical in terms of instrumental forces, it played the Beethoven with a Romantic concept of dynamics. Instead of a long crescendo, the development of the first movement was a wearingly consistent fortissimo. In the second movement, the wind-string balance was totally off, reaffirming the traditional inability of Harvard winds to play softly. Even considering the conservative tempo of the last movement, the orchestra's struggling with the notes is forgiveable; but its loudness and dullness...