Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...F.D.R.'s illness," he says. After long talks with the family and meticulous research, Playwright Schary first whipped off the last scene, in which Roosevelt doggedly humps himself to the rostrum on crutches to make the nomination speech, then tuned the rest of the play to that climax...
...nobody plebiscite last Dec. 15. This cynical insult to the nation's honor drove air-force men to try a New Year's uprising. That revolt was crushed, but it touched off a rapid sequence of plots, civilian riots and student demonstrations that reached their inevitable climax last week...
...lacks the courage of its afflictions. The lover, when he finally arrives, is not the man Vanessa was waiting for, but his son Anatol, a fatally charming young man who promptly seduces Vanessa's niece Erika. From there on the plot seems to thunder toward a traditional deathbed climax: Vanessa falls in love with Anatol, they announce their engagement, and pregnant Erika rushes out into the bitter, stormy night. Yet death and destruction are sidetracked. Though Erika has a miscarriage, she survives her night in the snow; Anatol and the unsuspecting Vanessa depart for a new life in Paris...
...broadcast will climax "Harvard's Day," a day during which alumni from all over the world will attend a program of seminars and special events prepared by the faculty...
Punches. The editorial, which the network had sent out in advance to about 160 affiliates, came as the climax of Where We Stand, a special 90-minute report comparing U.S. and Soviet strength. The show was the idea of President Stanton, and its content took added weight from his role as one of the shapers of the open-secret Gaither Report. To strike the "complete balance sheet" that Stanton ordered, the network news staff labored for three months over documents, interviews and film...