Word: crescendoe
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Firm Hand. The Dred Scott decision alone made Taney extremely unpopular in the North, but public ire reached a crescendo after Fort Sumter, when he steadfastly opposed the war-harassed Lincoln Administration as it tried to circumvent constitutional safeguards for the sake of wartime efficiency...
First the tympani's unbelievable crescendo at the start of the March to the Scaffold, then the mock-serious strings, followed by all that nonsense for the bassoons. Finally the inevitable tuba, and a great off-beat joke by the percussion utensils. The Dream of a Witches' Sabbath flaunted its own goodies, notably the raucous way the clarinets, flutes, and bassoons treat the witches' dance tune (a perversion of the Beloved's theme). The brasses' evil parody of the dies Irae plainchant seemed to have more downright nastiness to it than ever before...
...musicians and sweeps into the music with a concentration so intense that he likes to think it hypnotic. He is thickset and stubby (5 ft. 5 in.), but he makes up for his small stature with big gestures. At one rehearsal Ormandy swung his fist down for a crescendo and accidentally knocked out the orchestra's librarian, who happened to be standing too close...
...victory." Just two weeks ago, when confronted with a flurry of unrest from backbenchers, Home had privately reiterated his determination to stay on. Party Chairman Edward du Cann concurred, but the British press, most notably the Tory press, emphatically did not, and had been saying so in a rising crescendo. "He should go," asserted the Sunday Express. "The right moment to change," advised the Sunday Times. "Sir Alec could now retire with the genuine thanks of his party," allowed The Economist...
...inspired obvious reverence from his colleagues. Two violinists helped him to the podium, where he sank gratefully into his special chair. He conducted sitting down, but sprang upright at moments of crescendo or crisis. His right arm sustained the tempos with wide, sweeping gestures; his left hand energetically swayed from the wrist with a vibrato movement, coaxing sweetness from the orchestra as he does from a cello. The result was a Bach that no one had heard ever before. At concert's end, the Vermont mountains echoed with bravos for the world's greatest cellist, who had proved...