Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...write-and one of the things that shaped his vision was the contrast between the graves and his youth's calm summer landscape, the eternal tension between life and death. In Doctor Zhivago, one of this century's remarkable novels, Boris Pasternak carried that theme to its climax. With this embattled book he restored to the world the image of what Russia has long been, despite violence, madness and corruption -a preacher to the nations on the text of death and resurrection...
...decision came following indication that the Administrative Board was to take disciplinary action as the result of continued excesses during Fools' Week, the traditional pranky climax of the publication's competition. The Lampoon's officers will see Dean Watson today, and tomorrow the Administrative Board will reveal its decision...
Again opening its doors to all sophomores who wish to become members, Prospect has added the stipulation that declaration to join must be made before a certain hour on Open House night, the climax of the Bicker period. In last year's Bicker, Prospect kept its books open even after all men "in trouble" had refused its bids, in order to accommodate leftover candidates from other clubs...
...bridegroom, of dawn, joy, time, life, and the fear of death or the end of a moment. That's a large demand to make of any poem, but Sandy succeeds. A few metaphoric rough spots briefly mar the first three stanzas, but the last four rise evenly to a climax of considerable force, thanks to careful variations of rhythm combined with a consistent metaphor...
Toward novel's end, when Alfred Eaton's life should be reaching its climax, it comes apart. The surface events are relatively predictable-divorce, remarriage, dismissal by his Wall Street firm, a heart attack. But it becomes clear that for the most part these events are not accidents, that they are not even results of Alfred Eaton's education, past, or environment, but that they are fated by a small, icy crack in his being. The reader is forced to look backward over the story and to revise-what seemed love is suddenly revealed as the very...