Word: crescendoe
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...they had been lashed, and for 30 minutes shouts of "Viva la Russia!" rose to the roof. Then Balabanov continued: "You are wasting time trying to interrupt me. Communists and reactionaries have been trying to do that for 45 years, and haven't succeeded yet." Amidst a crescendo of cries of "Viva la Russia!" she concluded: "Viva il Socialismo Internazionale, viva il Socialismo Italiano...
...Zerbe students and twelve of his admirers. Manhattan critics went overboard for Zerbe's crisp, quiet cityscapes, still life jam-packed with unlikely objects, sombre circus pictures, and portraits in costume such as Aging Harlequin (see cut). According to the New York Times, the show was like "a crescendo roll of drums . . . puissant, clear, resourceful, uncluttered." As technical fireworks, each painting had proper sparkle. Did any of them also "mean anything"? Said Zerbe complacently: "If you are bright you can also enjoy the symbolism...
Last week about a thousand people had gathered before Abbey Lodge, a large modern block of flats requisitioned by the Air Ministry. Gradually a swelling chant of "Bedding for the squatters-bedding for the squatters-" rose, reached a frightening crescendo and fell again. From the squatters, whose morale still held, came the answering chant, "We'll stick it-we'll stick it." A poorly dressed woman wiped her eyes, smiled and said: "Ah, bless 'em, poor devils, I reckon they deserve medals for this." On the outskirts of the crowd a middleaged, middle-class man stood watching...
...most elaborate collections of paraphernalia ever assembled-planes, radar, cameras, raindrop measurers, recording devices in great variety-the Army Air Forces, Navy and U.S. Weather Bureau had launched a project to find out all that man can know about a storm, from its fleecy birth to crescendo climax. Because thunderstorms are flying's greatest hazard, the investigators hope their study will develop reliable methods of recognizing and avoiding dangerous types of cloud...
Swan Song (by Ben Hecht & Charles Mac Arthur; produced by John Clein) finds the authors of Twentieth Century and The Front Page collaborating on Broadway for the first time in seven years. But only as rewrite men. They have varnished up a thriller called Crescendo that thudded on the road last winter-and that is still dead wood...