Word: highpoint
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...stick together, not so much for old time's sake as for security in the here and now. They know that the past is dead, but they realize that their corpse of a memory is the best thing they have. That one moment of high school glory was the highpoint of the men's lives. The crowds cheered at them then, made them heroes. Nothing in later life has ever matched that thrill or yielded those honors. The boys cling to the past to rescue their pride, and they sport their memories as a shield against the present...
...attention to their conductor, which was too bad because Baker was definitely worth watching. Conducting the concert from memory, he displayed firstclass musicianship. His style is understated but strong, and though he is an extremely appealing conductor, he never overplays to his audience. If the overture was the highpoint, the serenade's rondo was the definite...
...long boring evening, relieved--not by anything any performer did--but only by the mysterious presence in the East Cambridge coffeehouse of someone who looked like a refugee from the Harvard College Fund. Maybe the highpoint of the evening came when a chair fell over; maybe it came with the end of the performance; we moved...
...particularly in a soft, mixed down solo saxophone. Paul Griffin's piano tickles with the right hand, fills chords and notes with the left. And the Dixie Hummingbirds are something else. Their oooh's are acapella oriented, rough and husky. The song finishes strongly, showcases them simultaneously, and the highpoint is a single oooh, taken from high tenor to falsetto, laid over the basic choral pattern...
...Krause's mile victory was the highpoint of a career that started when he was eight years old. At the time he was a three-year piano veteran, and his mother worried that he'd become too involved with music and neglect physical exercise...