Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...season's climax against the Eli yearlings Saturday, the Yardlings picked a poor time for their low point of the season. During the game the freshmen committed four very costly errors that let seven runs score. Yale took advantage of these gift runs and held fast behind pitcher Bob Carpenter to win, 13 to 6, over the Yardlings who were also not up to their usual hitting strength...
Wing forward Bill Morse scored the only Crimson try of the day in the second half, sprinting 20 yards to the goal line to climax a long Crimson forward movement. The Tigers went out in front in the opening minutes on a successful penalty kick and a try, then pushed over the final two tries in the second half to give the Crimson its worst shellacking of the year...
However, Crime and Punishment, despite its weak ending, is one of the greatest novels ever written, and likewise The Most Dangerous Sin is far better than its soggy climax--in all, one of the best French films to come to the Brattle in quite a while...
After the film clips of concentration camps with their crematoriums, Judgment built to its climax in a live scene in which an American judge (Claude Rains) faces the Nazi jurist (Paul Lukas) whom he has sentenced to life imprisonment. "How in the name of God," asks Rains, "can you ask me to understand the extermination of men, women and innocent children in ______?" For an odd moment the sound went off. Rains's lips moved, but no words came. The missing words: "gas ovens." The show's sponsor, who insisted on the fadeout in sound: the American Gas Association...
...again, Professor Forbes's attention to work as a whole was a major factor, emphasizing both the weaknesses and the strengths of the Requiem. Not even the most careful planning can smooth away structural choppiness; but it assures to the best parts a sense of form, an awareness of climax, and a true finality at the ending...