Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...does not at present care to come out prominently in connection with the matter. Still his suggestion may appeal to others who are concerned in our rowing affairs. The outcome of this year's race is of course a matter of conjecture, but we believe that when the climax is reached, it will be found that Harvard has come nearer than ever before to a definite system of rowing. Nevertheless she has not so far perfected her stroke that a study of the English methods might not give her some new and valuable ideas. It seems to us, however, that...
Pike - 27 Climax...
...Eddy, should have such a weak and careless ending. The expedient of putting the outcome of the plot into words adapted to a child's understanding was a happy and effective one, but to end the whole thing in such words was to carry the story to an anti-climax...
...march with the air by the cellos and a peculiar counter theme in the wood wind. In the second movement the flutes carry the air with an accompaniment by the violins and a sort of echo by the harp. Toward the end the whole orchestra works up to a climax and then softens and ends with a pianissimo passage. In the third movement there are some very difficult parts for the flute. The fourth is quiet in the first theme and ends in a burst of sound from the whole orchestra...
Perhaps, the most disappointing feature of this disappointing number is "A Mistake of the Bishops" by Pierre la Rose. It is a charmingly worded and sympathetic character-sketch, but after carrying one gently up to an apparent climax it leaves one in the air, with nothing to break one's fall, and the return to this mundane sphere is accompanied by something very like a dull thud...