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Brief Nightmare. As Gann showed in his bestsellers The High and the Mighty and Twilight for the Gods, he can tell a story. And this time, he need not bother to invent a plot. He simply tells his experiences with the authority of a survivor. Gann started flying the airlines in the pre-World War II days, just when the job began to seem respectable. "Agents even urged line pilots to buy insurance." But he brushed too close to disaster too often; he realized how the unexpected can upset an actuary's figures. He remembers a ham-handed clod...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Folded Wings | 1/27/1961 | See Source »

...Twilight of a Virger. The present undergraduates, Novelist Sheed deposes, are a dim lot, meanly concerned with security and job worthiness, impervious to general ideas, irreligious but without any definite atheist convictions, leading a sex life that is Casanovanic in theory but monastic in fact, boorishly bathed in beer, sweating out a degree and fighting to smother a lower-middle-class background with the correct set of socially acceptable diphthongs. The non-hero of this cad's paradise is John Chote, president of the junior common room at Sturdley College, an ancient, deliquescent foundation with a Victorian Gothic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Class Report | 1/20/1961 | See Source »

...than a simple climber. He is an empty man, one of nature's nihilists. For every serious matter he has a tweeded pose and a hollow, echoing gibe. He even sneaks into one or another of Oxford's numerous, empty churches, but nothing happens in the gothic twilight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Class Report | 1/20/1961 | See Source »

...Twilight Zone (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Night of the Meek, with Art Carney as a department-store Santa Claus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Dec. 26, 1960 | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

...might use a sponge, a knife, a finger or a piece of bread to get the desired effect; he was perfectly willing to let form be nearly drowned in movement. Few men have ever captured so luminously the restless wave, the fleeting cloud, a gathering mist or a fading twilight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Prodigal Landscapist | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

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