Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Forever Glorious." Along with the political consultations came the inescapable demands of international conviviality. At the social climax of the conference, French President René Coty's dinner at the Elysée Palace, Ike appeared resplendent in midnight-blue tails, the red breast ribbon of the Legion of Honor and France's highest decoration for soldiers, the Médaille Militaire. Sitting next to Coty's English-speaking daughter Genevieve Egloff, the only woman among 167 men, Ike heard himself toasted as "a chief forever glorious," chatted with animation until nearly eleven o'clock. Shortly...
...seemed typically odd, as did his hatred of churches and of the Industrial Revolution. But Blake's angers and oddities gradually cease to annoy as his radiance grows more apparent and his honors increase. Items: ¶The year's many Blake exhibitions in British museums had their climax in last week's display at London's Tate Gallery. Washington's National Gallery of Art this fall hung a vast Blake exhibition drawn from both England and America. ¶Articles, lectures and broadcasts on Blake are being read and heard in many tongues, including Hindi...
After such a climax, a letdown seems inevitable; but Scriptwriter Boulle has capped his climax with a splendid stroke of irony. Having risked his life for the principle that captured officers shall not do manual work, the colonel now decides that they shall. They shall do it, he announces, to the horror of his subordinates, because the British prisoners are not going to sabotage the bridge; they are going to build it; and in building it, they will not only "teach these Japanese a lesson," they will build the health and the morale of the entire battalion...
...friends point right to the heart of the matter. The Viennese designation of "spätnik" (meaning "latenik") and the Mexican reference to "stallnik" are both gibes at the overblown way in which public relations men and the American press built a giant anticlimax by trying to create a climax where it was not normal for a climax to come-in the midst of a delicate experiment...
...real, though relatively minor shortcoming in The Questioning of Nick must be laid at the door of the director, Peter B. Kane. He prodded his actors along too rapidly at the beginning, and thus dissipated some of the energy inherent in the climax of the play. Furthermore, during this climactic scene, he permitted McKirdy to deliver some of his lines too slowly, and with his back toward the audience. These faults, however, can easily be corrected for subsequent performances...