Word: anticlimax
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...Bishop has written a 713-page anticlimax. It does not contain the massive flaw of William Manchester's The Death of a President-namely, a distaste for Lyndon Johnson's necessary assumption of power. But neither does it boast the cogency of the Manchester book, the pertinent details-nor even the drama. As for style, it simply clogs the mind. Concerning Kennedy's arrival in Dallas, for example, Bishop writes: "This multiphrenic city sitting alone on a hot prairie like an oasis spouting a fountain of silver coins gave its elixir to John F. Kennedy...
...electors sign and certify their tally and send it, sealed, to the President of the U.S. Senate. There, on Jan. 6, in the presence of both the House and the Senate, the nation's electoral vote is ritualistically counted in what must rank as the greatest anticlimax in American politics...
...nation ever began with a richer inheritance or more radiant prospects than the United States of America. But living up to the promise of a perfect childhood can be a terrible strain. Everything achieved afterward tends to appear as anticlimax: the course of adult life seems to run depressingly downhill...
Given the tricky and unpolished style and the ultimate anticlimax of the plot, A Dandy In Aspic isn't half bad. Although Laurence Harvey's acting capabilities enable him to register only an emotional strain of the kind plainly treatable with low-level patent medicines advertised on television, several scenes are genuinely moving, conveying the agony of a very trapped and very unhappy man. A secret service conference between Eberlin (Harvey) and his superiors contains some masterful close shots (chiefly of Harry Andrews), and indicates the high level of photographic composition and lighting in the interiors. A later confrontation between...
...sixth and last lecture April 10, as he said at the end of the fifth, "I shall speak of a lesser poet whom I never read but whom I have to write. I shall speak of myself and you will have to forgive me this quite affectionate anticlimax...