Word: anti-climaxed
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John S. Chatfield '55, co-chairman with Baumgartner, stated that the Council was "somewhat disappointed" in the small number of petitions but felt that this election was an understandable anti-climax to the "Enthusiastic and exciting Permanent Class Committee elections...
...first scenes, director Barry Sullivan relates how young, struggling Shields took credit for Sullivan's prize script. This incident is only a prologue to Shields and his ruthlessness. Similarly, after the length and power of the second story, Shield's third betrayal is nearly an anti-climax. Dick Powcll, his victim, seems more the author of mystery stories than prize-winning novels and the plot of this sequence is but a soapy tale from radio serials. But Gloria Grahame, as a latter day Southern belle, drawls with a sultry sugared accent, more than covering any weaknesses in the episode...
After this conclusion the vice presidential race was an anti-climax. With a victorious Eisenhower delegation backing Warren, the Governor piled up 617 votes, easily routing a vigorous but unorganized push for McKeldin
...fact that the author of the short-circuit plan wondered "if Conant is aware of the situation" is proof enough that the Council's move is a last-ditch affair; by taking such a position, Council members have risked an anti-climax that may kill the controversy for good. We hope that, better versed in Sociology, they will reverse last Monday's vote and return to the dull but more effective realm of proper channels...
...proclaimed dramatically. "There won't be any! We've had negroes, we've had Chinese, we've had Indians, we've had Japs, but"--as an afterthought--"we still haven't had Malays." The student was satisfied by the answer, and the rest of the meeting came as an anti-climax...