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That duality led to the horrible excesses that occurred in Nazi Germany's twilight. "As Germany suffers successive defeats, Hitler will become more and more neurotic," Psychoanalyst Langer warned the OSS. "Each defeat will shake his confidence and limit his opportunities for proving his own greatness to himself. He will probably try to compensate for his vulnerability by stressing his brutality and ruthlessness...
With Family, Sanford and Maude going for them, Yorkin and Lear have emerged in a big way from the twilight of anonymity behind the scenes in TV. Johnny Carson was barely exaggerating when he introduced this year's Emmy Award ceremonies as "an evening with Norman Lear." After Lear had collected one of the seven Emmys won by Family, Carson quipped: "I understand Norman has just sold his acceptance speech as a new series...
...Just as twilight began to fall into night, and while we were occupied with the sunset behind us. Sonny Freeman and the Unusuals opened B.B. King's set. Fittingly, B.B. came on just as night started to fall, for you can't listen to blues before nightfall, because it is a nighttime music. He dipped deep for his classics, as if he had to make sure of his audience. He opened with "Everyday I Have the Blues," and took us way down for "How Blue Can You Get." B.B. King plays guitar at ascending levels of intensity: he builds...
Although ideologically committed to getting more women seated on the South Carolina delegation, the McGovern agents had to be sure the vote was either above or below the twilight zone. As the vote proceeded, Stearns, who was sitting in the trailer outside, warned Hart on the floor that the count looked uncomfortably close. With that, McGovern's aides began shaving their total, pulling votes away from the women's position in order to make their challenge lose by a sufficient margin. Humphrey's forces?and some TV commentators?at first read the tallies as an indication that McGovern...
Only too late did the A.B.M.ers realize what the McGovern team was doing. They scrambled to adjust their votes to hit the twilight zone, but lacked the skill and muscle to bring it off. The women's South Carolina challenge lost by 1,555.75 (a majority of the delegates to the convention) to 1,429.05. Thus the anti-McGovernites could not raise their point of order; they had won a battle but lost the war. There was now no way to stop McGovern on California. Said Hart: "It was one of those times when politics is really fun. We played...