Word: anticlimaxed
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When the Guam parley last week turned out precisely as the Administration had billed it-a routine review of the Viet Nam war-a sense of anticlimax swept the U.S. Considering that the President had assembled a score of top aides and hauled them 8,700 miles to a remote rock in the western Pacific, spending more time in the air (36 hours) than on the ground (31 hours), it was only natural that the nation should expect dramatic results. There were none. Johnson simply reaffirmed his determination to stand fast in Viet Nam until Hanoi is ready to talk...
...result, Jane Wingert cannot make a truly strong character out of Agata. Only at the very end, when she is on stage alone, do we get a sense that all the forces of Goat Island should direct themselves on her. And this comes as something of an anticlimax, because Moss has made almost too much of Angelo, giving him a weight he can't sustain in the play's resolution...
...ranked No. 5. They are also itching for revenge against Prothro's Bruins. The "Battle of Los Angeles" is scheduled for Nov. 19, and 72,000 seats in cavernous (capacity: 94,750) Memorial Stadium have already been sold. After that, even the Rose Bowl may be an anticlimax...
...recent years has gone a long way toward bolstering the Negro's rights in such fundamental areas as education and voting and toward easing his economic plight with a spate of antipoverty programs. Compared with such far-reaching laws, the 1966 civil rights bill seemed something of an anticlimax. It sought to right some blatant wrongs, most notably discrimination in the selection of juries and the sale or rental of housing. Yet, compared with the earlier legislation, the open-housing provision literally came a lot closer to home. The sad, even outrageous, but inescapable fact seems to be that...
...scene in the Great Kremlin Palace amounted to an anticlimax before the show had even begun. On the rostrum before 1,517 obedient delegates to the Supreme Soviet, Russia's puppet parliament, Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin huddled and chatted with studied amiability. Then Brezhnev rose and nominated Kosygin for another term...