Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remains: Will philosophy ever again address the heavens? Will it contribute anything to man's vision, rather than merely clarifying it? Caution and confusion are not necessarily signs of disaster, and even Hegel remarked that "the owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk." But the shadows are deep and the time for an awakening is at hand...
...dusk settled over the embattled country on Christmas Eve, there was hope there would be a temporary truce for the first time in eight years...
...guards used mirrors mounted on long poles to look underneath vehicles driven by Vietnamese. In the Caravelle Hotel, Vietnamese guests of Americans heading for the top-floor restaurant had to submit to searches in the lobby, and were required to leave their ID cards behind with the concierge. A dusk-to-dawn curfew was imposed by Westmoreland on all U.S. military personnel in Saigon...
Dancing Girls. For sheer pomp and pageantry, however, no city can light a candle to New York. At dusk, virtually every square foot of street frontage in midtown Manhattan comes alive with winking wreaths, sparkling and mechanized mannequins. For the 20th year, Christmas trees will divide Park Avenue for 62 blocks with a band of light. At Herald Square, Macy's windows add an Eastern accent with some 200 animated figures, ranging from girls dancing in mosques (a practice not allowed by Moslems) to silk-garbed courtiers watching performing jugglers. Across the street its archrival, Gimbel's, counters...
Comet Ikeda is expected to Crash into the sun tomorrow because of heavy witchcraft this weekend. The Astronomy Department unofficially announced last night that the extinguishing effects of the comet on the sun should cause dusk about an hour earlier for the remainder of the winter. A national time adjustment is expected...