Word: anti-climaxed
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After the fuss and fairy that preceded Mr. Truman's message to Congress the message itself was somewhat of an anti-climax. That it should carry political overtones is not a mater for either astonishment or condemnation. That it should be too mild for some tastes and too strong for others is only a further indication of the innocuousness of the speech...
...avoid anti-climax, perhaps, the New Haven gentry came up on Saturday night with the first four places in the 100-yard freestyle, and the crown in the 400-yard relay. Their loss of the 440 was nettling, but not at all crucial...
Definitely not! TIME is too busy presenting to its readers such items as: The Bomb & the Man, Death & the Ballot Box, Shallow Peace, Anti-Climax, End of the Line, Crime & Punishment, Death & the General, The Wilted Flowers. . . . You editorialize with: "There was as yet no sign of confidence from the Man of the Year . . . that anything could be done. . . . The feeling was abroad that . . . even presidents [were] mere foam flecks on the tide. In such a world," you sob, "who dared be optimistic...
...Anti-Climax. Yet it was an odd time for a celebration. New Year's Eve would inevitably come as an anticlimax to the wild triumph and relief of V-J day; the new era of peace would hardly have begun...
Like so many pictures, "Experiment Perilous" goes off the deep end in its last few hundred feet: hero George Brent (it was Joseph Cotton in MGM's "Gaslight) walks into a cloud-filled sky through a field of daisies with pretty Hedy coming too. This little anti-climax is preceded by a good deal of suspense, but it was better the first time...