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Community Twilight. Except for a glow of pride, tempered with nervous concern, among some Frenchmen, the only cheerful voices were being raised in Moscow, where Soviet ideologists suddenly thought they saw confirmation of the hoary Marxist-Leninist tenet that capitalist countries will inevitably be destroyed by their "inner contradictions." Cried a Russian spokesman: "This is the twilight of the so-called European Community. A difficult navigation now awaits the American ship of state...
...Negro Glass Menagerie. The widowed mother (Claudia McNeil) is a ferocious matriarch with a personality as forbidding as a medieval fortress. She has ringed her brood with a moat of make-believe, fearfully shielding them from the outside world. Her daughter (Ellen Holly) is retreating into a tormenting mental twilight of blinding headaches...
...cows and chickens can take care of themselves." Among other potential advantages he cites: children returning home from school would no 'longer have to trek in the dark, and, most important, adults making the trip home after work would be saved the hazards of twilight driving. Throughout the state, as well as in Manhattan, more traffic accidents occur in the late afternoon and early evening commuting hours than at any other time of the day, and every year the total increases with the switch to standard time...
...collection of poetry after World War I, "we have come through." The subsiding of the Cuban crisis, along with America's apparent victory, has clearly created a feeling of relief here and throughout the country. Yet in fact the victory was nothing save a bright moment in our "long twilight struggle." The questions it raised, then, had best be examined before they are forgotten...
...late. Now is the opportunity, and we must seize it. With the development of the European idea, there has come a resurgence and a new vigor in all aspects of European life. There is something here of the release of the spirit which lifted Europe out of the medieval twilight into the brilliance of the Renaissance and the modern world. Europe is once more on the move...