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Updike's latest book, Marry Me, is set in 1962, in pre-assassination America. As the protagonist suggests, it is "the twilight of the old morality, and there's just enough to torment us, and not enough to hold us in." The old confrontations--East vs. West, black vs. white--are reaching a head, and no one can know what the resolutions will...
Still worse, Burgess cannot decide what style handled black humor and lyric descriptions of Rome in the fading twilight. The dialogue is virtually indefensible on any level, except perhaps that it befits Burgess' protagonist the hack screen writer (who talks like his scripts), but that defense falters, for it can't encompass all the other characters...
...their twilight years, some very rich men are content to devote their energies to such sedentary tasks as clipping coupons and collecting Chinese snuff bottles. Not Daniel K. Ludwig. At 79, he is a veteran of seven decades of business; he started at the age of nine by scraping together $25 to buy a sunken boat. Now a restless recluse with a fortune worth perhaps as much as $3 billion, Ludwig continues to expand his shipping-based business colossus into new areas. Besides his National Bulk Carriers, Inc., which with 49 vessels operates one of the world's largest tanker...
...somewhere in the sixties, things began to change. Universities in general were in upheaval, and Black students in particular were dissatisfied and rebellious. Somewhere along the line, minority students had abandoned their trust in their statistical value, and when they did, they found themselves in a kind of descriptional twilight zone. Many rejected the pat definitions applied to them by admissions offices and sociologists, but few actually articulated the essence of their own identity. Slowly and often painfully they began to explore the meaning of their deep and soul-felt murmurings, and the first utterances took the form of some...
...races in Canada and at Watkins Glen, N.Y. Then came Japan and once more the rain. As track attendants tried to whisk water off the course with bamboo brooms, drivers met twice to decide whether or not they would run. The drizzle continued as fog settled on the track; twilight was coming. Finally, a last vote was taken, and the decision to race was made. Hunt, starting in the first row, skidded through the first turn and took the lead. Lauda, one row back, went once around the course in the blinding spray from the leaders' wheels, then retired...