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...expressive hands play with thick budgetary studies by the Brookings Institution that lie on the coffee table before him. Scattered at his feet are books that he has had little time for recently: Thomas Merton on Zen, Arnold Toynbee on the future, Idries Shah on Sufi parables. As the twilight fades, the soothing voice of Judy Collins drifts through the room from the hi-fi in the corner: " 'Cause she's touched your perfect body with her mind...
Kenya is a land of fabulously unspoiled game preserves, stable government and excellent trade opportunities. Taking advantage of those opportunities, as foreign businessmen have rue fully discovered, sometimes involves entering a twilight world of official corruption. Corporation executives doing business in Kenya are often asked by high government officials for "contributions" to various charities, though some doubt that the money ends up in the coffers of such worthy recipients as hospitals or orphanages. Early this year, James Skane, the American managing director of Esso Standard in Kenya, was declared a "prohibited immigrant" and summarily expelled from the country after...
Today, after a decade that has brought us such outspoken dramas as The Toilet, The Killing of Sister George, A Song at Twilight, Fortune and Men's Eyes, Staircase, The Boys in the Band, and, just this spring, Find Your Way Home, homosexuality is no longer shocking and virtually anything is grist for stage treatment...
Societies have the talent for lumbering on, and more than any other country, the U.S. has always defied determinism. No successful American leader is likely to believe that he is presiding over the twilight of his culture...
...converted to radical terrorism-the 20-year-old publishing heiress. The TV images seemed plucked from old Viet Nam film clips: street fighting in Danang perhaps, the helicopters wheeling overhead, the hissing tear-gas canisters, finally the flames of the enemy's hideout leaping into the suddenly hushed twilight. But the reality was that Patty Hearst might well be in the flames, and the most stricken of all the electronic witnesses was the Hearst family, watching 350 miles away in a suburb of San Francisco...