Word: crescendoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Radio Peking grew so angry with the Russians over their withdrawal from Cuba that it used a new technique for its philippics : each sentence was followed by a burst of martial music. With or without brass accompaniment, the discord between Moscow and Peking reached a crescendo last week, and no one any longer pretended harmony. In Budapest, addressing a congress of the Hungarian Communist Party, Moscow Delegate Otto Kuusinen. 81, oldest member of Khrushchev's Presidium, denounced a Red Chinese visitor two seats away: "Bigmouthed extreme leftist critics are bravely brandishing their verbal weapons before world imperialism." But when...
...story and twelve-page color spread on "The New New York." Members of the color projects staff had been talking about this story for years as they watched New York changing; last spring they decided that this fall would be the time to catch the change at crescendo. Senior Editor Cranston Jones scouted picture possibilities in a top-down convertible; Art Director Michael Phillips, Contributing Editor Kenneth Froslid and Researcher Rosemary L. Frank explored by helicopter. Freelance Photographer Jim Langley, an old hand at TIME color projects (his last previous one: the Air Force Academy Chapel, July...
Rhythmic Tranquillity. In Utica, N.Y., where Davies was born 100 years ago, a retrospective collection of his art is now on show. The 98 works at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute include oils, watercolors, two tapestries, and some small bronzes. Some of the oils, like Crescendo (see color), are filled with the slender nudes which Davies used not so much to people his landscapes as to punctuate his rhythmic compositions. And the tranquil quiet of Our River Hudson seems removed by much more than half a century from the birth of the brash modern movement that Davies supported so willingly...
Removing the Doubt. In 1937 Roosevelt named Black to the Supreme Court-partly because Black was the sort of liberal that F.D.R. wanted, partly because protocol would make his rejection by the Senate almost impossible. Opposition to Black's appointment was great, but it rose to a crescendo after the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette dug up proof that he had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan for two years. (The reporter won a Pulitzer Prize for his revelation.) Like some other Southern politicians, Black had joined the Klan to further his career. But, he explained...
...dialogue consists of monotonously pompous sermons and gratuitously unpleasant analyses of the characters within the film. Real people seldom talk to one another this way, principally because they don't have to gloss the weaknesses of a Bergman script with explications of its premises. This failing reaches an embarrassing crescendo in an unattractive scene with the girl's father and her husband tearing each other apart in order to say things Bergman couldn't say for himself...