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...tales of upper-class life, blood is rarely spilled (and if it is, hastily wiped away), sex is at best suggested, voices are seldom even raised. His brother William, the philosopher, pleaded with him: "Why won't you sit down and write a book with no twilight or mustiness in the plot, with great vigor and decisiveness in the action, no fencing in the dialogue, no psychological commentaries, and absolute straightness in the style...
...more and more of Adenauer's fellow Christian Democrats feel that his rigid concentration on foreign policy matters is causing him to lose touch with domestic political events. In the twilight of his career, Adenauer is sure that his place in history will be determined not by domestic political events but by his role in building a new Europe and a new Germany. He is obsessed by the fear that the fruits of his diplomacy-notably, a united French-German front against Communism-will be spoiled by his successors...
...eerie "combine" by Robert Rauschenberg. A shimmering forest scene by Charles Burchfield complements a Sam Francis abstraction showing swirls of blue dancing a quadrille across the canvas. The great precisionist Charles Sheeler, usually associated with geometric views of industrial America, is represented by an extraordinarily lyrical landscape bathed in twilight. John Wilde has a delightfully funny fantasy called Happy, Crazy, American Animals and a Man and Lady at My Place, done in 1961. The tiresome shibboleths of the gratuitously embattled art world vanish: the figurative and abstract paintings consort like long-time companions, and the brilliant assembly proves that...
...Twilight Zone (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Donald Pleasence stars as the venerable instructor at a boys' school who resists a request that he retire...
Leverett House men dismantled their home-made wooden geodesic dome yesterday morning after buffeting from 40 m.p.h. winds brought the structure near collapse. However they rigged up a replacement aluminum dome before twilight and the second performance of the the tragi-comedy Mr. Ooze went on as scheduled...