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Word: climaxes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suited American was directing a battery of cameras. In quick succession, an Indian girl, a trio of tarts, and two wing-hatted nuns danced onstage to gawk at the bearskinned sentries. A school girl got her head stuck between a sentry's legs. In the ballet's climax, the cast crowded about the palace gates to salute the Queen with ringing, patriotic cheers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ballet from Britain | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

Last week this agitation-with its important bearing on the West's stance toward Russia-reached a climax in Britain, West Germany and France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIALISTS: Cracks in the Marxist Structure | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...have left the glory of the professors for the last, because it is the essence, and the climax of my story. Many, like myself, have traveled a thousand miles to seek truth from these men of the ivory towers, because we believe in their mastery of subject matter. To date, I have been exceedingly gratified with their wealth of knowledge, and with their presentation. In the classroom I have found the professors effervescing with scholarship, and daily demonstrating that, to them, "The work is play for mortal stakes." Yes, they stand there in the heat of the day enjoying...

Author: By Lena B. Morton, | Title: Southern Teacher Views Harvard Summer School | 7/16/1959 | See Source »

...play. Still, I only have two hours and a half. Well, I'll do a little pruning here and there in the text; and I guess I'll just have to omit the whole taunting of Malvolio in prison, though I realize it's the climax of the entire anti-Malvolio plotting. This does mean I'm upsetting Shakespeare's delicately balanced construction; but that will have to yield just this once to allow for my additions, because, after all, I've got to have a really festive show...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Twelfth Night | 7/16/1959 | See Source »

...bestseller by Robert T raver (pen name of Justice John D. Voelker of the Michigan Supreme Court), is a courtroom melodrama that seems less concerned with murder than with anatomy. In scene after scene, the customers are bombarded with such no-nonsense words as "intercourse . . . contraceptive . . . spermatogenesis . . . sexual climax." And even the least barkbound of spectators may find himself startled to see and hear, in his neighborhood movie house, extended discussion of what constitutes rape ("Violation is sufficient; there need not be a completion ... on the part of the man"), of whether a doctor can or cannot "tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 13, 1959 | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

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