Word: climax
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...form to blend richly poetical prose with a delicate sympathy for a child's fantasies. "Fools" is better than its abrupt title might lead one to expect. It is a realistic tale of a country flirt and her two admirers--one of them the village idiot. The climax is a really admirable touch of cynicism...
...University team ended its season brilliantly by defeating Yale in a decisive fashion on May 29. Only one match of the nine counted for the Elis, that being lost by Curtis. Such an overwhelming victory was hardly expected after the Cornell and Princeton matches, and supplied a fitting climax of a successful season...
...Iphigenia in Tauris' especially is a live, human play with strong tendencies toward comedy--it is a romantic drama, with the climax at the end of the second act when Iphigenia recognizes her brother Orestes just as she is at the point of officiating at his sacrifice. The third act deals with the escape of the pair from Tauris, which they accomplish by fooling the old king who has a special hobby for human sacrifices...
While again some exception might be taken to the tempo of the Hungarian march, its performance attained a genuine climax of brilliance, verve and picturesque effect...
...Advocate" is that it maintains a certain harmony of inferiority. Much of the writing is mediocre or positively bad. To the latter class belongs the prosesketch, "A Nightmare Whisper of the War." The author has contracted from Stevenson an aggravated form of the adjectival disease, and the ineffective anti-climax with which the piece concludes does not compensate the reader for the pathological exhibition to which he has been subjected in the foregoing tedious paragraphs. Though free from this contagion, the "storiette" called "A Gamble in Orange Blossoms" is badly constructed, failing in a convincing delineation of the leading figure...