Word: anticlimaxed
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Others thought that after the typical Fitzgerald ending of Fitzgerald's life, a Fitzgerald novel reworked by somebody else might come as something of an anticlimax. They wondered who could rework it anyway. Nathanael West (The Day of the Locust), Fitzgerald's great & good friend, for whose literary recognition he generously pled in his introduction to the Modern Library edition of The Great Gatsby, was dead too. At the home of Nathanael West and his wife, Eileen McKenney, Fitzgerald attended his last party (and his first in many a day) on Friday, Dec. 13. Day after Fitzgerald died...
Japan reacted to the embargo violently, but alert Foreign Minister Matsuoka was a jump ahead of his own countrymen. He instructed Ambassador to the U. S. Kensuke Horinouchi to call on Sumner Welles and lodge a protest. He instructed Spokesman Suma to use strong words. That master of anticlimax told reporters: "Our reaction will be very great." But the most serious thing Yosuke Matsuoka did was to let word get about that Japan might have to retaliate by cutting off U. S. supplies of rubber and tin from the East Indies...
...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...