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...ceiling of comprehension above Victor's head. Once he bumps it, all is lost. The embodiment of Rousseau's noble savage cannot progress to "normality"; yet he has lost the ability to survive in the wilderness. Victor is vanquished, condemned by science to be chained in perpetual twilight...
...rather thin portrayal of a group of crotchety elders in what turns out to be a mental institution, written by David Storey (whose other current London play, The Contractor, gives emphatic proof that his gifts are not always going to be swamped). As two inmates in the twilight of sanity and senility, Gielgud and Richardson are living textbooks of stagecraft, distilling decades of experience into the flourish of a cane, the fumbling of a card trick, the crack of a voice. Their reading of a passage like the following raises tiny lyrical fragments to a level of Mozartean serenity...
Another delight is the work of the neglected American painter, William Trost Richards (1833-1905), whose Twilight on the New Jersey Coast might be described as a vision of the archetypal summer sea. Vast and lonely, the painting is devoid of human life. Gently lapping breakers touch the shore, and on the far horizon is a lone ship. On a small patch of beach a gull inspects some flotsam. The ocean is the Atlantic, but it could just as easily be the Indian, the Pacific, or Homer's wine-dark Aegean...
BUSINESSMEN have always admired the entrepreneur who has a grand, imperial design. But 1970 is turning out to be the twilight of empires that were built hastily on ideas, optimism and debt. Last week John M. King, 43, joined the ranks of those whose achievements and future have been cast into shadow by a combination of tight money and public skepticism...
George Reedy, who was Lyndon Johnson's press secretary, takes a gloomy view of the inevitability of presidential isolation. In The Twilight of the Presidency, published earlier this year, he writes: "From the President's standpoint, the greatest staff problem is that of maintaining his contact with the world's reality that lies outside the White House walls. Very few have succeeded in doing so. They start their administrations fresh from the political wars, which have a tendency to keep men closely tied to the facts of life, but it is only a matter of time until the White House...