Word: crescendoed
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Arthur was all right. This week, as Montgomery surged against Rommel's line and the supporting air offensive rose to a crescendo, Arthur was very much all right. In the overall strategy which he helped plan and which now he saw in action, planes and pilots were functioning magnificently. Beneath Tedder's wings was a design for victory...
While cries of patriotism were rising to a new crescendo and Dorothy Lamour was in our midst selling War Bonds for victory, the primary elections were considered unimportant. Yesterday's vote was the lightest in recent history. The success of the Bond sales was excellent, but a larger turnout at the polls would have been equally encouraging. For the handling and the management of money that people so willingly contribute to the nation through taxes and bonds is more important than the general reaction shows...
...love to Jonny. In Manila, Paula treats Cinemactor Gable to some ear-fondling that would paralyze censors less innocent than those in the Hays Office, lures him once more into a psychological betrayal of Brother Kirk. Then the action shifts to Bataan. A swift fadeout, filled with the keening crescendo of an enemy shell, ambiguously ends the lovers' fitful fever as Jonny finishes dictating a bangwhang spate of headline copy to his newspaper...
...brutal." For this martial theme Shostakovich resorts to a musical trick: the violins, tapping the backs of their bows, introduce a tune that might have come from a puppet show. This tiny drumming, at first almost inaudible, mounts and swells, is repeated twelve times in a continuous twelve-minute crescendo. The theme is not developed but simply grows in volume like Ravel's Boléro; it is succeeded by a slow melodic passage that suggests a chant for the war's dead...
...qualified to judge thought him the master versemaker in English of his generation. He lived in a decaying palazzo in Rapallo, on the Mediterranean shore near Genoa. Of his own greatness Ezra Pound had no doubt; he named his son Homer Shakespear Pound, so the story went, "for the crescendo effect." Writers whom he had befriended included a grateful exile, James Joyce, and a sportsman, Ernest Hemingway. His letters, jaggedly typed, jumpy with execrations and wit, walloped out in enormous numbers, were avant-garde currency for 20 years...