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...radio or radar waves with extraordinary efficiency; small ones stand out on a radarscope as if they were heavy bombers. The NACA plan is to put one of these large but almost immaterial objects on an orbit so high that residual air will not slow it appreciably. At twilight it will look as bright as the North Star, and radars pointed at it will show it plainly. They can follow it on its course and measure its distance and direction continuously...
...village of Bellapaix. Under "the Tree of Idleness" in the village square, the town greybeards sipped Turkish coffee and played a sempiternal game of cards. To Durrell's knowledge no one ever died, and the town gravedigger had to eke out a living digging cesspits. Each day toward twilight, a dozen cattle burst across the main street at racehorse pace, urged on by a bearded Hercules. He looked "like some dispossessed character from the Homeric cycle, who had yoked the oxen...
...PLACE WITHOUT TWILIGHT (382 pp.) -Peter S. Feibleman-World...
...hailed by word-bound, cliche-tied British critics as "a most important departure." Keller is now working on an analysis of Beethoven's String Quartet, Opus 95. Says he: "Most of what passes for musical criticism today is sheer bunk; I think functional analysis will bring about the twilight of the twaddle." He is not disturbed by the thought that it might also spoil the market for the written criticism with which he still partly supports himself. "The critic's job," says Critic Keller, "is to make himself unnecessary...
...narrative is the main part of the book. Like most allegories, the story suffers from the sometimes near-ludicrous clash of the concrete and the symbolic. It is a measure of Novelist Lagerkvist's great narrative powers that he manages to keep his story alive in the strange twilight glow between reality and unreality...