Word: crescendoed
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...Serpent, loosely based on Genesis, all the lyricism latent in the Open Theater comes out. To begin their ceremony of world birth, barefoot members of the company squatted in the aisles of the antiseptically modern Loeb Theater. With a slow crescendo of whistles, tin-klings and click-clacks, they signaled to one another, and to the audience they had infiltrated like Indians, that the creation indeed...
...have disrupted the annual meetings of at least nine major companies. Angry epithets have converted some stockholder gatherings into social battlegrounds. To disperse unruly demonstrators, helmeted police have used tear gas, and company guards have sprayed disabling Mace. Last week, the confrontations, at four corporate meetings, reached an acrimonious crescendo...
...Southie is on the ice too, and their two guns, number six, who is Richie Fowkes and number seven, Brian Coughlin, are gliding around and around, flipping pucks against the boards as the crescendo builds from both sides of the rink...
...American mood during the past year has been unquestionably calmer than it was in 1968, which seemed to be the violent crescendo of the '60s. A new Administration given to understatement?on the part of the President if not the Vice President?soothed the national psyche. When Spiro Agnew erupted against television and newspaper commentators and against dissent's "effete corps of impudent snobs," Middle America was further comforted?and also aroused to an intimation of its own potential strength. The flights of Apollo 11 and 12 were a quintessential adventure of American technology and daring; the "triumph...
Despite his optimistic, convivial manner, Robert Alex Baron, 49, knows true frustration all too well. For three years he has waged a lonely, almost quixotic war on the steadily mounting crescendo of urban noise...