Word: anticlimax
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Country and for Yale." Furthermore, this not only adds smoothness and decision but puts the greatest emphasis where emphasis is lacking. In our undergraduate course in English at Yale, we were told that the order For God, For Country and for Yale was a splendid example of an anticlimax...
...sophisticated, neurotic, who provides the hotel with faintly perverted gossip because of her infatuation for a charming widow, Mrs. Kerr. Sydney tries to escape the pity of ever-present hotel guests by affiancing herself to a sanguine, vacationing clergyman aged 40, but the clergyman is quickly followed by an anticlimax...
...Cantonese had so often been announced to be at the gates, on a false alarm, that when they arrived, last week, their coming was almost an anticlimax. There was no fighting. The defenders, a miserable rabble of mercenaries, had simply fled back from the previous scene of battle; and, as they scattered to hide as best they could, the Cantonese Nationalist columns trudged in. As they billeted themselves in the Chinese City, British soldiers and marines paced with fixed bayonets outside the barbed-wire-defended Occidental City. They saw their first real action when retreating soldiers...
Such novels are bound to be in the nature of an anticlimax. Who, in an earlier day, would have been interested in the further triumphs of Frank Merriwell or the incredible Brown after they left New Haven and Cambridge? All collegiate heroes of fiction draw the public interest because they are supposed to throw the spotlight on what goes on, and how, behind the academic walls. It is the wise author who lets his dashing young rascal fade into obscurity with his A. B. under his arm and the aureole of glamor still about his head. One had as leave...
...faculty cast 131 votes against the proposal and 141 for it, and it seems fairly certain that those who disapproved did so because they believe preliminary divisionals in Junior year would make Senior year an anticlimax. As one professor wrote on his ballot: "Life is real, life is earnest, and its goal is not a loafing Senior year." That Junior divisionals would bring about this result may be seriously questioned. The Student Council Committee drew up a very large program for distinction men in Senior year, and if the opposing faculty members had this in mind (as they must have...