Word: crescendo
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...when the dark, lo-fi “Shining”—shaded by a slow, monotonous melody and the thick bramble of guitar—meets the sweet introductory swell of “On Foreigners,” a swell shaped by a gradual crescendo of soft, high-pitched voices. This contrast creates for “Vapours” a varied landscape, highs and lows often absent from individual tracks; the album captures the arch the songs lack. “Vapours,” then, edges on success. But Islands’ yesterdays fuse...
...avoid dropping its second frame in a row.Enter sophomore Anne Carroll Ingersoll. The 6’2” outside hitter walked onto the court of the Malkin Athletic Center for the first time in the game and immediately dropped two kills. From there, Ingersoll helped catalyze a crescendo in her team’s play that eventually put the Crimson over Holy Cross (1-12) in overtime, 27-25.Harvard went on to close the fourth set in decisive fashion, winning the final game of its preseason schedule with the start of Ivy League competition looming this weekend...
...Stairwells make us weep,” he says, “And small kitchens. Sometimes you see a fork and you just want to die. There is no limit to the beauty of things.” What might seem overblown out of context is actually the ardent crescendo at the end of a string of meditations. The lull of this rising and falling of register is at times almost powerful enough to obscure the story. Hoffmann marries, has children, comes to love Japanese culture, and eventually becomes a professor, writing all the while. The different planes...
...demands for the head of Citigroup (C) CEO Vikram Pandit have not ended and may rise to a crescendo again if the bank receives poor "stress test" ratings from the federal government. The drumbeat of dissatisfaction about Ken Lewis, head of Bank of America (BAC), has gone on for months. Recently, proxy advisory RiskMetrics/ISS Governance Services recommended that the financial firm's shareholders vote Lewis...
...situation was brought to a crescendo in February when Harvard announced that it would be slowing construction of its Allston Science Complex, which has been slated as the first step towards realizing the University’s 50-year development framework. The slowdown left an especially bitter aftertaste in the mouths of local residents and some City officials, who say they sanctioned an accelerated approval timeline for the project only because the University had insisted that the complex was vital to furthering life-saving stem cell research...