Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Lurcy collection of modern French paintings went on sale in New York recently, bringing astronomical prices, these improbable, skyrocketing figures attracted national attention. Actually, this astounding sale only highlights the climax of a trend of many years. The market value of such paintings seemed to have reached a peak five or ten years ago, yet it has doubled or quadrupled during the last few years. Such a state of affairs would seem to be a boon for art dealers; their problems, however, have increased, for the work of most modern French masters is today comfortably settled...
...unhappy incestuous affair between a brother and sister. Three sub-plots are woven in to introduce, other suitors for her hand, their vengeful opponents, and a comic lout, who is murdered by mistake. Pregnant by her brother, the girl's affair is discovered, which leads to a climax of deaths. Read the play some...
Konrad Adenauer-staunch friend of freedom and implacable foe of Communism. It will be a fitting climax in a great career...
...When I first started I used to stay up through classes, and then sleep until ten or so in the evening, then get up; but after the night, the day and the drones in lectures spell out anti-climax in capital letters; they're just not worth seeing after you've lived with the candles of the night." He pointed up across the street...
...portray Freud in the great mature wisdom of his old age and gives the most complete account of his thought of any of the three. Freud is depicted as a live, vital human being; an invaluable service to this psychoanalytically-oriented age. Jone's third volume is a fitting climax to his description of the dramatic life of the man who made us more aware of the irrational motivations of our behavior than any other, a fitting tribute to a man who died as he had lived--a realist...