Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hands trace delicate arabesques. As she sings an ancient Sephardic spiritual or a song of Yemen's lonely shepherds, her voice rises in volume and takes on a coarser quality, and the melodies take eerie slides and leaps. By the time she reaches the song's climax, her head tossed back, her voice a full-throated wail, the nightclub is pulsating with a savage beat...
Keats's letters are among the best in the language; they move toward a poignant climax as the young poet, his powers barely glimpsed, realizes that he will die young (tuberculosis killed him at the age of 25). That Keats was a full-blooded man as well as a literary genius is the main impression left by this collection, for which Lionel Trilling (The Middle of the Journey; The Liberal Imagination) has written a sparkling introduction...
...attitude to everything. But his second marriage (to ex-Cotton Club Chorine Edna Mae) and a growing sense of his new stature as a world champion soon began to smooth off some of the rough edges. The reform of Sugar Ray Robinson reached some sort of climax when he phoned Walter Winchell a year ago and offered to give the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund his cut of the gate in the championship fight with Charley Fusari...
...more than 50% of the world's strategic raw materials. But the U.S. is also the world's biggest producer of raw materials. As much as 70% of the world supply of molybdenum (used to harden steel for cutting tools) has come from a single mine at Climax, Colo.; the U.S. produces 90% of the world's high-grade sulphur, is the largest producer of copper, exports more cotton than any other country. But in other materials, notably metals like tungsten and cobalt, the U.S. is a comparatively big user and small producer...
...from the latest nonfiction account of the mystery. In Rudolph: The Tragedy of Mayerling (TIME, Jan. 17, 1949), Hungarian Count Carl Lonyay, whose uncle later married Rudolph's widow, reconstructs the affair as the climax of a psychopathic melodrama, motivated by Rudolph's unhealthy fascination for sex and death. According to Author Lonyay's version, the bored, philandering Rudolph, morbidly intrigued with the idea of double suicide, talks mistress Marie Vetsera (his third choice for the role) into the act, then takes ten hours to shoot himself after finishing...