Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plane, with a minimum of immigration fuzzbuzz, the F.F. sees the world's most intensively cultivated fields, wheat and rice and sorghum and countless vegetables, pressing to the edge of every road, rail and airport runway. He sees the back streets of cities, busy from dawn to dusk, where every human activity save copulation is conducted alfresco. Then occurs the gee whiz Instamatic Blur. The people smiling and waving and clapping from city sidewalks and country lanes. The painfully hand-inscribed WARMLY WELCOMING boards. The impression, away from every preprogrammed and official event, that this is an extraordinarily relaxed...
...went in the cold Roman dusk to take his place among the Popes buried in the crypt of St. Peter's, to lie between his two namesakes, John XXIII and Paul VI. As the plain cypress coffin was borne through the portals of the great basilica, the huge, tearful crowd standing in the rainswept square burst into applause. At the Requiem Mass that preceded the burial, it rained intermittently. As if to counteract the rain clouds, in his funeral address 85-year-old Carlo Cardinal Confalonieri compared Pope John Paul to "a meteor that unexpectedly lights up the heavens...
...love with the teen-age babysitter. Seeking psychiatric help, he is detained by police who think he is the one who has been making threatening phone calls to the doctor. Francis eventually winds up in the cellar of his house doing woodwork as therapy. Cheever paints a scene of dusk falling over the suburb of Shady Hill and concludes: "Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains...
When the violence in Iran's major cities worsened, Talbott and Brelis rushed back to the capital. By Friday, as dusk fell and a martial-law curfew threatened to cut off communications from their base at the Tehran Hilton, they gathered up their voluminous notes, typewriters and a store of candy bars for quick energy, and then headed for the nearby home of TIME'S Parviz Raein, where a telex was available. While Raein's wife, Sarieh, brought sustaining rounds of coffee and yogurt, the three men worked through the night, filing a barrage of reports...
Then came "that fierce season of bewilderment," and suddenly there were only two breathings in the cabin. The boy's world was filled entirely with a ghost and a father who would for a long time remain "in the dusk of his grief over the loss of a wife when she was only 31. The father was short, wiry, horse-stomped, work-scarred, a ranch hand, a sheep tender, a survivor of scratch-hard mountain life who cherished the few years he and his bride had followed their flocks among the timeless hills. He faced life with...