Word: anticlimax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crows, California and Washington, who went into their seasons last year with relatively green outfits, partially through necessity and partially through the hope of building up an Olympic crew. Now the climax of the coming season is nonexistent, and these two top notch crews are apt to suffer from anticlimax all through the year...
However, the anticlimax is not likely to be so great as it might be because there is some talk of having a post-season race next spring between the Eastern and the Western crews. If this plan should come through it is still apt to be relatively unimportant compared to the projected Olympic trials and in many colleges it will probably not be the climax point of the season, particularly in the case of Harvard and Yale...
Almost an anticlimax was the President's exposition of the alternative way, the Roosevelt-Eccles-Cohen way, of building up an 80-billion-dollar national income by continued Government spending. "We have learned," he said, "that it is unsafe to make abrupt reductions. . . . It is my conviction that down in their hearts the American public . . . wants this Congress to do whatever needs to be done to raise our national income to $80,000,000,000 a year...
There is comparatively little action for a subject of this kind. The book is principally concerned with the planning of the flight from Africa to South America; and the flight, when it finally takes place, turns out to be an anticlimax. It is, therefore, not from the number of events that the book derives its absorbing interest, but from the way they are described and integrated. Mrs. Lindbergh keenly singles out the small but unusual details that make the story unmistakably real: "The were newspapers on the floor, French ones, old and yellowing, gritty with dust, their emphatic black headlines...
Thus, when the earthquake-which cine-maddicts with sensitive eardrums have been anticipating nervously ever since the establishment of the story's time and place -finally begins to rattle, it is almost an anticlimax. Unlike the same phenomenon in San Francisco, it inflicts no more than a few severe bruises on the cast, leaving most of them intact for their grand reunion later. Success or failure of such a picture as The Sisters depends largely on how well it evokes the mood of an era which lies within memory's horizon for many people who will...