Word: twilight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Author. Budapest-born Arthur Koestler lives on a sheep farm in North Wales, is now staying at the tiny Left Bank Hotel Montalembert, where he has rewritten his play Twilight Bar (a flop in the U.S., it never reached Broadway) for a Fans performance. He refuses to identify himself as a Zionist, says he doesn't approve of terrorism but can understand the Jews' bitterness and despair. To write Thieves in the Night he drew on two years of banging around in the Near East (20 years ago) as a correspondent for a German paper. He took...
Dingdong Chimes. At twilight on his first day in Bali, a flock of pigeons circled over McPhee, trailing behind them a shining rain of silver music. Tiny bells were tied to the pigeons' feet and bamboo whistles were attached to their tails...
...could not utterly desert and become a Unionist; he could not remain with Davis. ... He was neither here nor there, a lonely and bewildered figure, wandering through the twilight of the Confederacy with a copy of its Constitution in his hands...
...Yaleman, crossing Ohio's Western Reserve Academy in the twilight, would find the surroundings familiar; sons of Eli, who founded the school 120 years ago,† modeled its architecture after their memories of Yale. For many years the little "Yale of the West" also had a Yaleman for headmaster. But last week when it hired a new scholastic head, Western Reserve Academy signed on a Harvardman...
...Firozkhan Noon, chief collector of British honors among the Moslems (K.C.S.L, K.C.I.E., Hon. LL.D., Toronto, Honorary Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford), mounted the platform. "From now on," he proclaimed, "I am Mister Noon." (Cracked one Hindu columnist: "Twilight would have been a better word than noon...