Word: twilighter
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This is not to say that this situation will last forever. Maybe the Harvard aura will wear on him, too. After all, as a hotshot young coach, Restic nearly accepted an offer to coach the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles before deciding to spend his twilight years in Dillon Field House...
...watching the leaves fall, or listening to dusk approach. "As the afternoons grow shorter, and the early evening drives us home to complete our chores," he writes, "we are reminded of the shortness of life, and become more pensive, at least in this twilight of the year...
...defining and unifying moment for a generation and a nation--something that only a great tragedy can do. For those who experienced it, the news of the assassination is etched into memory with the power of myth. Even today, the single word "Dallas" evokes a sense of despair: the twilight of our hopes and the beginning of 30 years of fear and decline...
...quoted it with pleasure, Walter Kerr once observed that Neil Simon did not have an idea for a new play that season but wrote it anyway. Jonathan Tolins, a 26-year-old Harvard graduate with Simonesque style and polemic aspirations, had a whale of an idea for The Twilight of the Golds. He just didn't write a play to fulfill...
...Twilight often resembles a couple of far less weighty Jewish family comedies now on Broadway, The Sisters Rosensweig and a slick new romance between sexagenarians, Mixed Emotions -- except it isn't nearly as good. Arvin Brown's ham-fisted direction leads to stilted acting from everyone save Sbarge and Michael Spound as his whiny brother...