Word: anticlimaxed
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...Manhattan with John Sloan, Max Weber and Boardman Robinson, will soon travel to Paris on a Canadian government fellowship. Like most contemporary Canadian painters, he feels closer to Paris than to New York. After Jackson's "Group of Seven," Roberts' art looks cool and quiet as an anticlimax ought...
After Morse's feat, the rest of the 28-hr.49-min. session (longest since 1950) was an anticlimax. Backing down from the stand he had taken earlier in the week...
...Annapurna, in the Nepalese Himalayas, soars 26,493 ft., and when Herzog and his pal, Louis Lachenal, reached the summit, they had scaled the highest peak ever topped by man. In Annapurna, Herzog's story of the expedition in the spring of 1950, the victory becomes a literary anticlimax. What is vastly more exciting than the climb is the return trip, the harrowing ordeal-by-nature calculated to shiver the spirit of the toughest armchair explorer. Author Herzog-an engineer by profession, a mountain climber by religion-is no great shakes as a writer. His account of the trip...
...gold and priceless antiquities, and on again to Orchomenus in the Peloponnesus, where he uncovered the legendary treasury of King Minyas, and to Tiryns, the birthplace of Hercules, where he revealed the largest citadel of the Grecian world. At last, at the age of 68, Schliemann committed the only anticlimax of his career-he died in Naples of a sudden infection...
...escape was to be inconspicuous. Greene learned to drift off by himself, against the rules, to Berkhamsted's beautiful common, a "wilderness of gorse, old trenches, abandoned butts." (Once he ran away from home and hid out on the common; it was a deeply humiliating anticlimax when his big sister flushed him out after a few hours.) A boy could also escape by reading. Graham was 14 when he read Marjorie Bowen's * The Viper of Milan, a melodramatic yarn about a war between the dukes of Milan and Verona, and "from that moment I began to write...