Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weakest spot in the work is the very end. The Allegro gives every intention of finishing in a rousing climax for all four instruments; but there follow a few more measures, petering out into some harmonics for solo 'cello. This seems a bad miscalculation...
...Buried Treasure. First they cross The Bad Lands, then they encounter The Bluecoats, later they come to The Ghost Town, finally they are attacked by The Indians-a tribe of cosmetic Comanches who bite the dust as delicately as though it were crepes suzette. At the climax, The Good Guy and The Bad Guy shoot it out to supply the answer to the second most important question the picture poses: Who is faster on The Draw? Nobody seems to know the answer to the most important question: Why is Robert Taylor, a man of considerable general culture, content to spend...
...frontier with the strength of their hands adjust to the business suit and all the other impersonal appurtenances of a white collar middle class world. The leitmotif of loss of contact with the land resounds again and again until it crashes out in the final crescendo climax of the play. On one level Arthur Miller's play is one of violent social criticism if perhaps to call its roots Marxist would not be going...
...TIME, Oct. 22, 1951; March 8, 1954). Among the many other covers on which McConaughy reported: Adlai Stevenson, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, McCarthy Committee Lawyer Ray Jenkins, Georgia's Senator Walter George. Last year, weeks before the historic Senate battle on civil rights legislation reached its climax, Jim McConaughy laid down clearly and accurately the complex strategic and tactical lines, furnished the reporting on a cover about Georgia's Senator Richard Russell. Just six weeks ago he traveled to California, reported that Democrat Pat Brown would lead Republican Bill Knowland by 600,000 votes...
...Noah stood aside and jeered (moaned Noah: "Lord that wemen be crabbed ay!"). The "animals"-a chorus of 70 children-marched two by two into the ark caroling "Kyrie, Kyrie, Kyrie eleison," and the orchestra launched with a crash into cymbal-punctuated storm music that reached its climax in a beautifully descanted chorus of Eternal Father. As the storm subsided, the cast climbed back to the stage singing a four-part Britten Alleluia, filed out singing Thomas Tallis' The Spacious Firmament on High...