Word: peakings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Baird said the Radcliffe team reached the peak of its strength at the season's end. "Too bad we have to stop, we would win the next three games," he said...
...great length of the concert also shows the band's faithfulness to their tradition. Common wisdom has it that they cater to the four- or five-hour peak of an acid trip, and so they did at Springfield. The size and anxiety of the crowd indicated an equally enormous amount of commitment and planning. Thousands stood in line in the rain as early as five o'clock, and many were showing the signs of a "heightened awareness" by then. The gentleman to my left, for example, who had shaved half his head and tied what was left of his hair...
Sometimes rapping the lectern for emphasis, Schlesinger continued: "Since World War II, we have had a phenomenal rate of malusage so that in each decade-the '50s and the '60s-the world consumed more than had been used up in all previous human history. Oil production should peak out around the world in the early 1990s. The world, which is now consuming about 60 million bbl. a day, faces a limit on production somewhere around 75 million or 80 million bbl. a day. That means in five years' time we may have chewed up most...
Landiss's main problem is that he overacts-perhps at Pullum's insistence. Certain scenes reach an emotional level which is entirely too high. The play seems to peak every five minutes, leaving the audience on a lurching roller coaster. And Landiss's method of attaining these misplaced emotional peaks is awkward. It is as though someone told him the only thing an actor can do to increase intensity is talk faster or louder or both. Landiss fails to realize that in many scenes a well-placed whisper can be more effective than an ear-shattering, rapid-fire sequence...
Dartmouth and MIT should be more of a match next weekend on the Charles, and as the Crimson reaches its peak at the end of April it will face tough challenges on consecutive weekends from Navy and Princeton...