Word: louder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Actions Speak Louder...
...suite by Pergolesi, by contrast retained only the form and melody of the original, progressively adding more and more idiom to each of the eight dances. There was, however, within the movements, considerable alternation between the two styles, the softer and slower passages being nearly pure Porgolesi, the louder and faster passages principally Stravinsky. There were the typical Stravinsky cross-rhythms, two against three, throbbing dissonances in the trombone and basses, mechanically repeated figures for pizzicato strings, and, at the end, circus-style trombone "smears" for satirical effect...
...louder noise came. It was an artillery barrage-the heaviest since El Alamein. It concentrated on Djebel Roumana, and when it had walked back & forth across the hill for a couple of hours, British infantry rose up from the wild barley growing in the sand and stormed the height...
Invasion talk was never louder than it was last week. There was a nervous scramble across the whole continent of Europe. Alarms, warnings, hints flowed from Allied, Axis and neutral capitals...
After many months of glib discussion on the question of a Negro-White mixed regiment, it is about time for some official Harvard student action--action to speak louder than all the words the subject has thus far stimulated. Most Harvard students realize that the wide gap between the preachment and the practise of democracy in the Army must be bridged; a foundation of that bridge lies in the mixed regiment, which is, in turn, a foundation itself for future liberalism and better racial attitudes in a post-war United States. The steps of construction must be taken...