Word: twilight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...showcase for Actor George C. Scott's considerable talent, will disappear. Some critics cried that "serious drama" was vanishing from TV. Series drama, maybe; but well-written plays have always been tantalizingly rare on TV. CBS-TV President James Aubrey has also axed The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Twilight Zone, Route 66, The Garry Moore Show, The New Phil Silvers Show, old Jack Benny, and Danny Thomas (who, like Benny, will bob back on NBC). Judy Garland "resigned" with a moving letter. Meanwhile, it was announced that Lucille Ball was going to lose her regular CBS series and appear...
...augmented by endlessly suggestive details: the costumes (varying from the pure white of the girl who offers order to the pure black of the magnificent monster-woman Saraghina, who gave the young Guido his first sexual experience), the music (an orchestra blares out Wotan's theme from the Twilight of the Gods while the camera focuses on the faces of the old men and women who crowd the health resort), the juxtaposition of lines, and, most of all, the endless convolutions of the plot. The film Guido is directing is similar in many respects to "8 1/2" itself...
...TWILIGHT ZONE (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). "Ninety Years Without Slumbering," a script by Rod Serling about an old clockmaker (Ed Wynn) convinced that he will die if anything happens to his grandfather clock...
Fester J. Pupous '65 looked out of the window of his third floor single in Winthrop House. The world was bleached gray in the winter twilight. All that moved were the red tail lights on Memorial Drive, racing away from him as fast as they could...
When John Fitzgerald Kennedy took the oath of the President of the United States on a snowy Spring day in 1961, he knew that the long, twilight struggle against tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself would not be finished in the first one hundred days, nor in the first one thousand days, It is not' yet one thousand days since he informed the world of the energy with which he would prosecute that struggle. But his part in it, though incomplete, is tragically done...