Word: crescendoed
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...night school law degree and rose in the Los Angeles Police Department to become its chief in 1950, a post in which he built one of the finest, most efficient forces in the U.S. but became a target of criticism from Negro and other minority groups that reached a crescendo during his handling of the Watts riots last year; of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles...
...significance of Detroit's own safety measures is that they were not taken until public attention was focused on the problem. Car designers has complained that safety would not sell while stiletto tail fins would. Only when the uproar over automobile fatalities reached a crescendo did the industry realize that style would no longer sell without safety...
...orchestra in Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass. Haydn is easy to sing, and conductor Elliot Forbes took advantage of the situation to reveal a dynamic power and expressiveness that no one who heard the first half of the concert would have guessed the singers possessed. Particularly striking were the crescendo-decrescendos in the Sanctus, the contrasts in the Benedictus "Osanna in Excelsis," and especially the pianissimo "Dona Nobis Pacem" in which the singers produced one of those beautiful, sensuous sounds that are pleasurable in themselves, independent of melodic or harmonic movement...
...ballet Oedipus, would probably be all right if it were performed with dancers. It effectively realizes its goal of conveying the kind of discomforting moods one associates with the tragedy of Oedipus. But as a concert piece it doesn't quite make it. It has its moments: an exciting crescendo in the first section, or the sometimes startling rhythmic attacks by the strings. Generally, however, it is disappointing. A few times the strings start a vamp that in most modern composers would lead to a moving buildup. But here the woodwinds sneak in a few insipid, undefined attempts, and then...
INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. John Osborne has orchestrated the plight of a man out of tune with his time, working in themes of frustration and painful self-recognition, building to a crescendo of despair. Actor Nicol Williamson is the commanding virtuoso...