Word: comedownance
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Warm Reception. Now 49, his body scarred by repeated gorings and 20-odd corrective operations, Franklin knows that his career as a top matador is finished. But like all good fighters, he hates to call it quits. His first practice corrida at Alcalá was quite a comedown for a matador once the toast of two continents, but Franklin did not seem to mind. In fact, he was delighted with his pupils, even though some of them reacted to the tension of their first appearance by lapsing into a series of low-comedy antics...
...Irma Barnfield has been a missionary's wife too long not to recognize their new South Pacific station, October Island, as a "comedown." But she knows better than to complain. To her husband Sam, so dedicated that he has never consummated his marriage, it is simply another "field that awaits the plow of the Lord...
...pride and triumph preceding a fall. Sands, a Grand Old Man of Letters at 57, has just wangled government support for a young writers' colony at Vardon Hall, a country estate. This simple fact wins him many enemies. The local gentry are snobby about Vardon Hall's comedown and sniffy about the artist types soon to take it over. The leader of the opposition is a huge "obscene parrot" of a woman named Ma Curry, who wanted to turn Vardon Hall into a hotel. As a kind of madam for a clientele whose tastes are right...
...nonsense, though many a Technicolored close-up confirms that Actress Young, 38, is one of the most rewardingly well-preserved sights in Hollywood. But what makes Half Angel especially disappointing is that it was written by Scripter Robert Riskin, whose horseplay with half-baked abnormal psychology is a sad comedown from such past comic successes as It Happened One Night and Mister...
...citizen, an Anglo-Catholic, an earnest and pedantic scholar, Auden has become a kind of younger opposite number to T. S. Eliot. Like Eliot, he has lost the sympathy of many former admirers in his native land, who consider his expatriation and his orthodoxy a humdrum comedown for a promising poet...