Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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India's relations with Red China, said Nehru firmly, are "friendly." In this Nehrunian climax, the Prime Minister turned on his inquisitors: "Members seem to live in an unreal world," he remarked. "We should know the ABC of foreign policy before we start to talk about...
Each Christmas Eve the members of Jerusalem's diplomatic corps gather, gorgeous in cocked hats, plumes and silver swords, and retrace the starlit route of the Magi from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. They climax the occasion with midnight Mass at the Church of the Nativity...
...undergo without a gradual preparation. Only by slow and patient teaching that the danger and the suffering must be understood and absorbed as necessary to a goal felt to be spiritual can the film lift up the heart of the onlooker to share in the triumph of the climax...
...serious as any since the Reformation. But the Reformation was a revolt only against the Church; the present crisis is, essentially, a revolt against God. It has many aspects. Its climax is Marxism; its accompanying symptoms include many ills of modern society-lack of moral certainty, an overdose of materialism, worship of the state, negation of all things spiritual. Therefore it is a threat not only to the Catholic Church, but to all Christian ideals. Despite the gulf that divides them, both Protestants and Catholics have found that they can be allies in defense of common values against the common...
...River and the Gauntlet), but he writes with the quiet authority of a man who spent 1943-45 in the South Pacific and the Philippines, spent a lot of further time digging through Army files, private letters and diaries, and personally interviewing survivors. His book builds to a melancholy climax, from the bombing of Clark Field through the Japanese landings, the fight on Bataan, and the departure of MacArthur, to the final battle of Corregidor and Wain-wright's surrender. While The Fall of the Philippines holds no major surprises, it puts the tragedy in clear perspective...