Word: dawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Los Angeles. It was 5:40 a.m., and Chicago was only 148 miles away. On an adjoining track, also Chicago-bound, the slower Kansas City Chief clicked along at a modest 65. In both trains, as they raced side by side near Monica, Ill., dawn and restlessness had prodded light sleepers into wakefulness. Washrooms were crowded with women prettying their faces and men shaving...
...Before dawn, we gathered up all available food and clothing and prepared to make...
Poet Untermeyer hailing the dawn: ". . . Morning, which has never failed, has come again. The city rubs its eyes and wakes from sleep ... In the country, the birds have already roused the world. The barn doors swing wide; the milkers put down their pails; the good earth breathes deeply . . . These next hours are precious; they may be milestones in your life. Face them boldly; meet them with all your resources. They are yours. Take this day. Make it a day to remember-or just to enjoy. Make it a good day. And, to begin with, a good Good Morning...
What a few months of dusk-to-dawn boozing with his jaded, royal pals did to Barnaby is the story of this first novel about high life in postwar Paris. F. Scott Fitzgerald could have done wonders with these rootless idlers. So could the Hemingway of The Sun Also Rises. But Barnaby just falls in & out of love a couple of times and eventually concludes that "things happen as they happen, and it is a waste of time to vex ourselves with what they are and why they come...
...rising tension of the plot. And he gave his two first-rate Dutch sopranos, Louise de Vries (Philomela) and Greet Koeman (the sister) singing roles that were powerful, dramatic and sometimes rhapsodic. When the curtain came down, the jampacked audience was not quite sure whether it had seen the dawn of a "great national school." But, said one Amsterdam University professor: "This evening was very encouraging...