Word: anticlimax
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pavlov. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov's ven- erable appearance at Yale's International Psychological Congress was no anticlimax to his visit at Harvard's International Physiological Congress (TIME, Sept. 2). The psychologists showed the old gentleman great respect. Though they knew of him only at second hand (through the Behaviorists), though he spoke in Russian and in highly technical terms on "A Brief Sketch of the Highest Nervous Activity," they applauded him tremendously before and after he spoke. He said that he felt justified in separating certain reflexes, as food, sex, defense, from the rest of nervous activity...
...date of the affair. The use of Friday of Commencement Week has been found to be impractical, for the competition of the crew races that day is strong, and the fact that Commencement and all its ceremonies are past has tended to make the day something of an anticlimax, although the quality of the Orators and Poets has not deteriorated...
...chapter in 1781 through 1911, the gatherings were held on Friday. From 1912 through 1922 the official date was set for Monday. Since then, Friday has been observed again but the conflict on this day with so many activities as well as the fact than it was the anticlimax, coming the day after Commencement, caused the change...
...cheapest sort of vinegary red wine, it means to the initiate a splendorous ascending scale of Bordeaux reds, culminating in massive, regal Châateau Haut-Brion and finally in sublime Chateau Lafite, a wine possessing so grand a flavor and bouquet as to make mere Champagne an anticlimax. After recovering from the ecstacy of sniffing and sipping red Chateau Lafite. however, Mr. George Reeves-Smith likes to end with a white Chateau Yquem, "the sweetest, most wonderful of wines." "I never drink any of the wine when I test it," he continued. "That's what most people think...
Incidental characters Mrs. Rinehart creates with a sure touch?the chorus girl turned by marriage into a lumpy termagant; the stern old grandmother who indulges a reprobate son. But, often as not, her dramatic moments flare into melodramatic anticlimax: Missie, weary of a wasted life, staggers to her old home, turns on the gas stopcock, falls asleep. "As the sun rose it turned into burnished copper the tarnished gas bracket, through which no gas had flowed for many years, and beat pitilessly on her throat; that throat on which her life was etched with fine lines, and in which...