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...makes you 'preciate the lonesomeness of others too, when they need you. Maybe Americans tend to be generous because they recognize lonesomeness in everybody, and through that lonesomeness they've learned that folks are pretty much worth the same, that we're all in the same boat. At sundown I'll haul the raft to a lake in the middle of some town, and watch the lights pop on one by one like signal fires, like the town was findin' its mind in the dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Huck and Miss Liberty | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

...suited for radio, where the ballplayers could only be imagined spitting invectives at the umpires, and the umps' own lips could not be read so distinctly. But since technology is a force more irresistible than Ozzie Smith and George Brett put together, even weekend World Series games begin after sundown now, and the umpires are in such a turmoil over working conditions, hectored as they are by television's instant replays, that they have turned to Richard Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Making It Perfectly Clear | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...EVER WONDER why Dexter Gate (on Mass. Ave near Lamont Library), which tells thousands of Harvardians every year to "Enter to Grow in Wisdom," is always locked at night? Does Harvard not want you to grow in wisdom after sundown? Is growing in wisdom just a nine-to-five...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Ambidextrous | 6/28/1985 | See Source »

Think of all the wisdom found after sundown. One of the greatest inventions of all--time--the light bulb--was undoubtedly discovered in the dark. Thomas Alva Edison obviously did not study at Harvard (or Yale for that matter) for he surely would never have ventured to find wisdom in the dark if he had been educated by our Mr. Dexter...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Ambidextrous | 6/28/1985 | See Source »

JUST AFTER 2 a.m. on June 6, 1968, Hughes was awake--his days always began around sundown and ended well into the morning--and watching television, his main contact with the outside world. Only one television station was on, the CBS-affiliated Channel S. Hughes owned it. Frank Mankiewicz came on to announce that Robert F. Kennedy '48 had died...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Uncovering the Truth | 5/1/1985 | See Source »

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