Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This week, on Thursday and Friday nights, the staff will dim the electric lights in the public rooms of the mansion. In their place, dozens of candles will be lit. Oak fires will be kindled in the eight fireplaces, and the President and his family will open the doors and invite the public in. In the soft light one can stand for a moment and ponder where we have been and wonder where we are going...
...many Britons, the cutbacks mean a dim and chilly winter, with the prospect of massive power blackouts unless there is a wholehearted cooperative effort to turn off the lights and turn down the heat. The new measures will reduce electricity consumption by 20%; an earlier cutback of 10% had already darkened theater marquees and storefronts and cut street lighting by half...
...lights are dim, the heat is down...
According to the axiom that it's darkest right before dawn, a huge sunbeam should encompass the Indoor Athletic Building Monday morning. Harvard's weekend basketball hopes are about as dim as the overhead lighting in the antiquated sports complex...
Like Bertolt Brecht and Max Frisch, Switzerland's Friedrich Duerrenmatt is one of those didactic dramatists who regard the theater as a classroom, the stage as a blackboard, the pen as a pointer and the playgoers as barely educable dolts. These playwrights take a dim view of man, dividing the species into two arbitrary categories: predators and prey, the fleecers and the fleeced. No one would deny that such characters are abundantly present in life, but to see the entire pattern of human behavior in these terms is one-eyed vision. As propounded in The Visit, currently being revived...