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Word: climaxes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accompanied by long-measured chords, to deliver the death verdict. When the curtain fell for the act, there were seconds of silence, and then shouts of "Bravo, Benjy." Billy's fourth-act soliloquy, poetically sung by U.S. Baritone Theodor Uppman, and Captain Vere's epilogue, capped the climax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Britten's Seventh | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

There is one full scale "ballet" number, a soft shoe routine, and a large chorus pantomine, all designed by Felicia Conte, the first woman ever to work on a Pudding show. The "ballet," coming as the first act climax was a trifle long and a bit overdone, but the pantomime of a Senate investigation (complete with Senators McCarthy and Tobey) was executed with taste and humor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 12/7/1951 | See Source »

...fiery ideas of Ibeca, and it is through the often-confused maze of social theory that his personalities emerge and gain strength. The Harvard Theatre Group has succeeded perfectly in fusing characters to their philosophies, and the result is a dynamic production which mounts in intensity to a thrilling climax at the end of the second...

Author: By Joseph P. Lorenz, | Title: The Playgoer | 11/30/1951 | See Source »

...climax of this assimilation comes when the camera suddenly reveals that the wife is pregnant, her child will be born an American...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Film Attempts Documentary of West End | 11/27/1951 | See Source »

...meeting comes as a climax to two months of hush-hush conferences that have often left members of the committee itself is the dark as to what was happening. Harry Levin '33, professor of English who represents the faculty on the panel along with Archibald Macleish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric, admitted last night that he had no idea what proposals Brown or other consultants might make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee on Theatre Gathers for First Time | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

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