Word: climax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MEDFORD--After leaving the administration building early Saturday morning in a dramatic climax to their three-day sit-in, a group of Tufts University students yesterday continued their struggle to secure tenure for Assistant Sociology Professor Peter Dreier and to change the university's tenure process...
...scene, as Deadeye and the Captain foil Ralph and Josephine's attempt to clope--much to the surprise of the crew and Sir Joseph. The scene features the downstage, semi-hidden voices of Deadeye and the Captain and the upstage, tiptoed actions of the others. By the scene's climax, a delightful rapport develops among the full company as the Captain vents his anger on Dick and then Sir Joseph on the Captain...
...intense immersion in the time of his times, Norman Mailer has repeated his conviction that making history is preferable to reading it. In his influential essay "The White Negro" (1957), Mailer turned the emerging social type known as the hipster into a daring pioneer adrift in "the perpetual climax of the present," freed of all moral guides and codes of conduct except the thrumming of his own nervous system. The author specifically disavowed any precedents for this existential frame of mind: "If the ethic reduces to Know Thyself and Be Thyself, what makes it radically different from Socratic moderation with...
...first and second lives actually exists. In his young for motive years, "The best thing that had ever happened to me was being dressed like a woman." A few years later: "Though not fully awakened, [Raskind's] heterosexuality was beginning to emerge. He seemed to have arrived at the climax of an all-American boy-hood." Richards describes Raskind's pre-sex change dalliances with women and, stocked full of estrogens and dressed or undressed in drag, with men. Richards played both sides of the sexual court before her sex change--first and second serves--so the operation can hardly...
...climax came Sunday. Matched against West Germany and their superstar halfback Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Italy was in the finals for the first time since 1970. It had been 44 long years since the Azzuri had won the World...