Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Political love-play without reaching a climax of action is not an effective way for the American liberal to further his professed principles, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, told a meeting in Lamont Forum Room last night...
...make some improvements in the fire-fighting equipment in the Yard dormitories and did try to decrease the danger of inadequate exits; this was one of the first campaigns that FDR won. The reforms came near the end of FDR's time as CRIMSON president, and were a climax to his career on the paper...
After a race riot, in which colored gangs jump the gun and attack the whites on their own ground, an autopsy proves the doctor innocent. Biddle is unconvinced. This stalemate is the point, and the logical climax, of the film. As the action continues, with Biddle's vendetta against the doctor, the characters resolve into more familiar type-patterns: the man who hates Negroes because he himself was involved, the doctor who must treat the man he hates. But the ending is still inconclusive. The doctor has won his life, others have died, but nothing has been changed...
...wife of a magazine writer. On his father's orders, Mercury brings the bride and groom to a Grecian inn near Mt. Olympus, where Jupiter goes to work. By disguising himself as her husband, he finally seduces the young lady in what may be called a furious first-act climax...
...anachronistically edified, if somewhat surprised, to hear American Guerrilla's naval officers speaking of General Douglas MacArthur with something close to veneration. They also may be heartened to learn that the Leyte landings were as simple as a walk-on. In the film's climax, the rumble of distant naval guns disperses a Japanese patrol that is closing in on the guerrillas. "MacArthur?" asks Micheline. "He said he'd return," replies Tyrone. Moments later, led by G.I. columns stepping briskly to a Sousa march, the jeep-borne general himself (played by Robert Barrat) rolls into sight...