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There are no pep pills in this game, although more often than not, there is beer. No one uses steroids, and the men who battle mightily against the encroaching twilight do not get athletic scholarships. There is only sport...
...that's it. Real sport. If you want to see it, just amble down behind the Stadium Tuesday afternoon. There, in the twilight, the stars of Harvard athletics really come...
Although "The Energy Game"'s beguiling simplicity belies a sophisticated research effort, it represents a microcosm of MR&A's forecasting efforts and Westinghouse's public relations front. The corporation lives and dies by kilowatt-hour sales, and shrinking demand announces the twilight of the moribund nuclear industry. Placed on the offensive, the firm's nuclear divisions must convince utilities, the government, and the public, that future energy wants require the construction of more reactors. For MR&A employees, justifying nuclear power is an article of faith; almost every task the group undertakes relates to this objective...
...late 1960s, Davies and the Kinks (including his brother Dave on lead guitar) turned to more reflective projects that became overly elaborate. In his patented style of calculated offhandedness, Davies set to musing on that S.R.O. spectacle, the sunset of the British Empire. This is the longest twilight in recorded history, and Davies caught a little of its irony and much of the social contradiction and poignancy in songs like Muswell Hillbilly and Victoria, which voiced such self-mocking nostalgia as "Long ago life was clean/ Sex was bad and obscene/ And the rich were so mean/ ... Victoria...
...before Presidents. Teddy Roosevelt talked about it with eloquence in 1899: "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the great twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." Virtually all of his successors have leaned heavily on that inspiration in times of high risk...