Word: climax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pronged attack on dissidents and artists seemed to climax in a carefully calibrated drive for greater party discipline and ideological conformity. China-watchers were reluctant to read more into the latest crackdown than an attempt by the party leadership to prevent liberalization from getting out of control while it determines the exact place Mao should have in history. Said one Western diplomat in Peking, paraphrasing the late Chairman: "This government may still believe that they should let a hundred flowers bloom, but they don't feel they want one hundred...
...through interpretations of Christ's teachings with hardly a breath in between. The roles of the disciples, though loosely defined, make up a chorus. The fast pace, rhythmic folk-rock arrangements and wide amplitude of the dance movement create an atmosphere of joyous anticipation. Each song builds to this climax and a break from the rapid-fire skits, but the mood changes drastically near the end of the second act, during the period of persecution and crucifixion...
Bicker reaches its colorful climax during Open House...
...back porch, for 42 remaining sophomores, the suspense has reached its most pitiless climax. Since almost everyone who was inside has gone home now and the porch has long been growing chilly, the 100 percenters are permitted to move into the Ivy dining room. They can see the silver candelabras now and the rows of empty bottles. Prospect had electric lights and beer tonight. Somehow the number dwindles to 35 as the discouraging hours pass, then 6 give way and trudge toward Prospect, and another 6 are placed as a few clubs each make the sacrifice and each consent...
Ernst Mayr, Alexander Agassiz professor of Zoology emeritus, was one of the architects of this synthesis. His Systematics and the Origin of Species (1942) marked the climax of nearly three decades of work that spanned scientific disciplines and attacked the major problem left unsolved by Darwin, the origin of variation of physical features and traits among species. He and William B. Provine have outlined the development of this intellectual trend in a new book. The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology, published by the Harvard University Press...