Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every flight test of an experimental airplane is a blood-chilling drama. It has its hero, the test pilot, to dominate its climax like the matador of a bullfight. It has a troop of villains: the unseen devils of the air that claw at the untried plane, shake it, spin it, hammer it, try to tear it to ribbons. Some tests are extra tense. The maiden flight of the X-3 a few months ago was one of the touchiest in aviation history. The pilot: Bill Bridgeman, a husky, clear-eyed airman who had already flown faster (1,238 m.p.h...
...grand climax of current Russian peace propaganda is likely to be a renewed proposal for a united and disarmed Germany, open for trade with the Communist East. A lot of Germans, and especially Adenauer's Socialist opposition, may fall for such a program. It would attract British traders, who would like to deflect German commercial competition eastward. It would be even more enticing to many French, distrustful of a rearmed Germany...
...fear of going beyond the party's current rules-breaking the long sweep of a natural development to introduce another melody. There were other times when he dressed up a banal moment with humorous orchestral tweaks and twitches, or suddenly stirred up a bee's nest of climax. Only the fourth movement sounded thoroughly like the old Prokofiev; playfully capering themes rippled off into odd harmonic corners and back again almost before the listener knew what was happening...
...winding up the 1953 convention of the American Quarter Horse Association, and they found plenty of horseflesh to admire. A three-year-old named Rukin String drew his share of the talk by running the quarter-mile in 22.1 seconds-just a tenth over the world record. But the climax of Tucson's week was the cutting-horse contest, which had brought to town 34 of the best-trained ranch horses in the world...
With all its intricacy, the plot is a standard period vehicle for Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic dialogue and the abilities of the actors. One absurd climax follows another in the fantastic style of the nineteenth century. Fortunately, however, the lines have been spared any tempering, and are as fresh today as they were sixty years...