Word: twilight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHERRY ORCHARD. Uta Hagen leads the APA in a gentle and balanced production of Chekhov's commentary on the sad absurdity of human beings who, unable to adapt themselves to the changes of history, grope about in a half-light that may be twilight and may be dawn. Pantagleize, The Show Off and Exit the King round out the repertory...
...auditorium sizzle, crackle and explode with electronic music; twelve slide projectors and 30 spots splash colors across the stage like an aurora borealis gone amuck. Nikolais, an ex-puppeteer who creates the music as well as the costumes and lighting for his dances, calls these trips into the twilight zones his "esthetic Rorschach." Some of Nikolais' Flipped-Out spirit is reflected in the work of one of his dancers, Murray Louis, whose Junk Dances is a kind of op art satire in motion...
...Princeton got the goal and more back in the same period, on tallies by Mike Wiggins at 6:37 and by Terry Peterman at 18:58. Despite heavy Harvard pressure, the Tigers clung to their lead until Ware's goal in the twilight of the second period...
...varied and difficult terrain in South Viet Nam, the jungled peaks and malarial valleys of the Central Highlands would seem least worth winning. Scant crops grow there, and scarcely any Vietnamese live there. The triple canopy of jungle foliage shadows the ground in a perpetual, skyless twilight. But, on the Highlands border where Laos and Cambodia meet, there is a valuable piece of real estate: a natural valley that funnels through the worst border mountains out into the gentler highland countryside rolling down to the sea. Astride the valley sits Dak To, until three weeks ago a dusty airstrip guarded...
...writing awards, the Swedish Academy frequently chooses in order to honor the giants of literature in the twilight of their careers. Asturias rep resents the other extreme-the choice of a worthy writer who might otherwise go largely unnoticed. Asturias feels he was picked also because he embodies a new irend in Latin American literature. "We have long had a tendency," he said last week, "of avoiding our problems, submerging them in romanticism and folklore. With me, the academy has selected the other tendency-that of involvement, confrontation and commitment...