Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Abbey, the pageant will follow a ritual reaching far back into the history of the British crown. The union of the English lion and Scottish unicorn on the royal arms (above) dates from James I. St. Edward's Crown, placed on the Queen's head at the climax of the ceremony, is a copy of one worn by Edward the Confessor in 1042 and was made for Charles II after Cromwell destroyed the original. The Imperial State Crown, which Elizabeth will wear as she returns to the palace, was made for Queen Victoria in 1838. It contains...
...Climax of the celebration was a midnight Mass in Rio's Municipal Stadium, jammed to nearly double capacity by the biggest turnout Rio could remember, topping even the most popular football game. Later, when a photographer's flashbulb exploded, a man blind for 27 years cried: "I see a light! Thank you, Nossa Senhora de Fatima!" Churchmen did not claim any miracles for the Lady, but others did, fervently. One man who said that the statue could work miracles was challenged by a skeptic. In the argument that followed, the two men drew their knives. The believer...
...delightful mixture of the macabre and the amusing. But even Robinson, as a man compelled to realize the prophecy of a palmist who sees murder in his hand, gets tiresome in interminable chats with his inner self. And finally, the heavy hand descends again in a lurid and protracted climax...
...clever seven-part rondo, the theme of which is an anagrammatic treatment of Miss Besser's name ("S" being the German designation for E flat, and "R" representing rc, or D). The theme appears in several guises, bandied about by piano and orchestra until the powerful inevitable climax. While the piano part does not stand out brilliantly from its orchestral context, it still needs a virtuoso performance. Miss Besser, both technically and interpretively, gave it just that...
Sung in a small Mexico City gallery last week, this serenade was the climax of a long and happy evening for the frail, dark-eyed woman lying there in a great four-poster bed. She was Frida Kahlo, invalid wife of Muralist Diego Rivera and Mexico's best woman painter (TIME, Nov. 14, 1938). For her first public show in Mexico, 200 friends, fellow artists and critics had turned out to sing, sip Scotch, and applaud her delicate surrealistic pictures...