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...sacred symbols and rites of the Torah, the Talmud, and the lines of division in modern Judaism. Again and again Wouk draws on his personal experience. After describing the negative injunctions of Sabbath observance, which cuts off the outer world from Friday's sundown to "the end of twilight on Saturday," he demonstrates its positive side in terms of a Sabbath during the crisis-fraught readying of a Broadway play. "Leaving the gloomy theatre, the littered coffee cups, the shouting stagehands, the bedevilled director, I have come home. It has been a startling change, very like a brief return...
...Return. "Fraud," cried scientists. The bird man works at twilight, and that is when starlings go home to roost anyway. Also, the starlings were back next day. Very interesting, said the bird man, but these things take time. And had the scientists seen his credentials? In Indianapolis, for instance, where everything from klaxon horns to electric cords had been used to keep starlings from roosting at the U.S. courthouse and post office building, the bird man turned up last January. He spent a few hours on the courthouse roof, dangling what seemed to be a silver rope over the ledges...
Coming after 29-year-old Author Feibleman's exceptional first novel, A Place Without Twilight (TIME, March 3, 1958), the new book is a disappointment. But for all its melodrama and its occasional flavor of Charles Addams under the magnolias, it is still well worth reading. Feibleman is a fine stylist who almost never gets his hands sticky. He sees people shrewdly, and can set down small scenes with great poignancy. The episode that ends the book is a masterpiece-even though it parodies the whole novel and the entire Southern school of literary fungus munchers. After the hero...
Meanwhile the University staff will conduct research into dust layers in a portion of the earth's atmosphere, especially through examination of the sun's rays at twilight. This is considered of possible importance to future space travel...
...plays, he has been one of the most voluble defenders of the serious playwright's place in TV. But disillusioned Writer Serling announced last week that next season his world belongs to the series, has signed on to write a weekly half-hour science-fiction show called The Twilight Zone...