Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maillol once wrote to a friend, "I would have made a bad prose author. Poetry resembles sculpture so much more...." These words express perfectly the spirit of the sculptor. He was never involved with circumstance, with anti-climax. His work, in part or in whole, constitutes an ode, clear, direct and without dissonance...
...varsity soccer team will rate as a slight favorite today when it meets an improving Eli eleven here at 1:30 p.m. A victory for the Crimson would climax its most successful season since 1955, and assure it of at least a second place finish in the Ivy League...
Crew, a three season sport, marked the climax of its fall rowing yesterday with two exciting intra-squad races on the Charles River...
...three days and established the spiritual authority of the church over the temporal power of monarchs. And no schismatic efforts of the Chinese Communists to divide Chinese Catholics from the church in Rome could result in a more apparently hopeless tangle than the Schism of 1378, which reached a climax with three competing Popes.* three Colleges of Cardinals, three sets of bishops, priests and tax collectors...
...Last Hurrah. Spencer Tracy, who can also be seen fishing in cinematically troubled waters in The Old Man and the Sea, is far more at home playing a curly-haired, Curley-like Irish machine pol. The climax conies in a death scene that should wring tears from an Ulsterman...