Word: crescendoed
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...When you see him in his finely tailored all black three-piece suit, thrusting his arm and clenched fist out at the packed crowd in a sign of Black Power, his voice wavering like an erratic EKG printout, reaching a crescendo mid-sentence and then trailing off so that he whispers the last word, syllable by syllable—“hu-man-i-ty”—it is then that you realize that Cornel West is not your ordinary professor...
Unfortunately, however, my argument reaches a lukewarm crescendo: I don’t know how we solve this ‘problem.’ Surely the answer is not to become technophobes and retreat into caves. It seems unlikely (though not unimaginable) that the courts would reinterpret the guidelines for some kinds of subpoenas and make them more challenging to acquire, given how much functional precedent lies behind the current procedures. For now, then, the best policy might well be one of prudence. It pays to be aware of just how vulnerable the details of our private lives could...
...many critics dismiss Davis, 56, as a purveyor of schlock, the Lawrence Welk of New Age. They are not impressed that Mannheim Steamroller, whose name derives from the German for crescendo, has performed twice at the lighting of the National Christmas Tree or that right-wing talk-show host Rush Limbaugh is a big fan. Romantic Melodies, a recent CD that scored the biggest week-over-week sales increase in Billboard history, was scorned by one critic for "anesthetic properties (that) would surely soothe ... in a proctologist's waiting room." Another compared Mannheim's violin-heavy harmonies to an orchestra...
...being carried on a pillow by a slave when he was two years old; on his deathbed, the last face he saw was that of the slave who attended him in his final hour. The interest in Jefferson's racial views, long the subject of scrutiny, has reached a crescendo in our time. As Americans attempt to build a more egalitarian, multiracial future, we crave a better understanding of what the man credited with most eloquently expressing the American creed felt about race. What did Jefferson think about black people? How does his relationship with Sally Hemings complete our picture...
...week after the crescendo of a season that never ends, the captains of the Crimson Dance Team lounge together in their Lowell common room, casually and clearly at home...