Word: anticlimax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think, from a hotel chef, changed a little as it was handed on to me by a friend, and I changed it further. I used it as a dish for a group in Philadelphia to which I belonged, and which went by a title I consider a triumph of anticlimax - La Societe Gastronomique de Bryn Mawr ..." French Hunter's Dinner. "Don't be afraid of the lard. In the South of France lard is used to absorb the odor of flowers for perfume, and in this dinner it is used for the purpose of absorbing the odor...
...Paris, Garry Davis let the Trouillas crusaders in for a dismal anticlimax. In the face of waning public attention, Garry said he was giving up organizational work for a period of study and meditation. "I do not know for how long," he elaborated. "I shall return when I consider myself ready for the second step, whatever that...
...sound reason why I should not be prosecuted. As far as punishment goes, it would be an anticlimax; real punishment comes from within. No extenuation I can conjure up satisfies me, so I shall offer none...
After this tiff, Fairless' statement that in 1949 the steel industry hoped to turn out 68 million tons of finished steel, 3,000,000 more than the past year's peacetime record, seemed like an anticlimax. His point: without the industry's high earnings, steel companies could never have built the plants for this expansion. In the first nine months of 1948 U.S. Steel had spent $198 million on property...
Beforehand, I thought Brahms' First Symphony would be an anticlimax, but I had forgotten. It only seemed rather nostalgic after the Honegger--a statement of the enviable confidence of the nineteenth century. Brahms and Koussevitzky are very congenial. Under his direction, the music achieves a great string of rich climaxes which march along with excitement, but without remembrance...