Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...climax of sorts builds when Mrs. Halloran, feeling pretty good on the day before the scheduled holocaust, puts on a tiara ("My crown!") and throws a farewell bacchanal all over the lawn for the poor villagers. Fools, they don't know any better and go ahead and have a good time though not as good a time as Mrs. Halloran. What happens next day I had better not tell...
...final climax came late in the afternoon when the first and third doubles were split, thus setting the stage for the decisive match. At number one, the Hicks brothers overcame the Sophomore duo of Gallwey and Vinton, 6-3, 6-4, while at number three Sears and Krogh blasted Feldman and Hostetter...
...mood of the play is Beckett's familiar ravaging despair. Perhaps its climax occurs when the old woman quotes the Bible: "The Lord upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all that be bowed down"--and then bursts into wild laughter. The manner, on the other hand, is a new one for Mr. Beckett. All That Fall is set, not in the middle of nowhere, but quite recognizably in the Irish countryside. If you allow his characters the rhetorical skill and the comic eccentricities that everybody does allow the Irish, the play is not far from being realistic...
...superb quartet which comes near the end, and is everything an operatic ensemble ought to be. Technically, it is well constructed, while the hilarity of the situation combines with the very lyric beauty of the music to produce a kind of exhilaration which can only come in a climax to an extremely fine set piece...
Bergantino smashed his line drive homer to center for two runs a moment later, but by that time it was all anti-climax...