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...village victory in South Viet Nam. Before going to Hawaii for the meeting, McNamara made a major policy speech in which he declared that the U.S. is determined to resist when ever the Communists wage such "wars of liberation," in which "the force of world Communism operates in the twilight zone between political subversion and quasi-military action" and the tactics are those of "the sniper, the ambush and the raid, terror, extortion and assassination." These tactics will be countered, he said, not with massive forces and nuclear weapons, but "with companies and squads and individual soldiers...
...once level tilt." Life has become a cantilevered terrace that has taken a crazy tilt. A letter read by Father evokes a vision of the children when they were tots frolicking fondly with their parents, and as Mother sings a Christmas lullaby the first-act curtain descends on a twilight reverie of bygone tenderness...
...Clinging Twilight. The basic navigation tool is still the time-honored sextant, with which a navigator shoots the stars (or planets, sun or moon) to fix his plane's position above the surface of the spinning earth. Sextants have been vastly improved since the days of sailing ships, and a competent navigator can make a fix that is accurate to within ten miles. If weather permits, he takes about five fixes during a transatlantic crossing...
Weather does not always favor the celestial navigator. Far up where modern jets fly (up to 40,000 ft.), heavy clouds are rare, and the brighter celestial bodies generally shine through thin, high cirrus clouds. But at twilight, when the sun drops just under the horizon, there are anxious stretches when a navigator can spot no stars against a bright sky lit from below. If he is heading eastward, he soon flies into darkness, and his guiding stars reappear. But fast jets almost keep pace with the sun, and on westward flights the baffling, starless twilight may last for several...
...tranquillity and too little drama. Quite the contrary. Just as in Wild Strawberries, Bergman builds up a rich world of visual symbols and touches the agonized center of his characters' struggles; but he has not yet become obsessed with dark and cryptic half-meanings that lead on to a twilight zone of nightmare...