Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brubeck harmonies become more & more complicated, build up to a pulsing climax, then, rather unbelievably, push on past it. At the final peak Brubeck is often playing in two keys at once before he finally wrings his idea dry and the music subsides. When it is over, the jive fans look at each other in something like a daze before they burst into applause...
Next year both the sophomores and the bicker period were relatively passive but again 100 percent was achieved. In 1952 all sophomore eligibles received bids on the second night of open house, in what the "Princetonian" called "a precedent-shattering climax...
Last week, for the first time, the hieroglyphics of Sakkara appeared in full English translation in a four-volume work published by Longmans, Green & Co., under the sponsorship of the Zion Research Foundation of Brookline, Mass. The work is the climax of 72 years of scholarship, during which time the texts had been transcribed, and about a third of them translated into German by the late Kurt Sethe. Six years ago the Rev. Samuel A. B. Mercer of Worcester, Mass., a retired Episcopal minister, took on the job of completing the work in English. Buttressed by careful commentaries, the Pyramid...
...About Cha (Billy Williams Quartet; Mercury). Over a persistently throbbing chant, frantic Billy begins his revelations quite normally, but works up to what sounds like a pathological climax...
...does well, perhaps because it has had so much experience at it. The Turning Point is a good case in point. Leanly written by Warren Duff, crisply acted by a competent cast and directed with vigor by William Dieterle, it is a smartly tooled thriller. Best scene: a tingling climax, in which a syndicate killer stalks Reporter Holden through a crowded boxing arena, trying to draw a bead on him from catwalks high above the stadium...