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Ford kept up the steady flow of his own writing-novels, criticism and reminiscence. But after a brief period in the '20s, when some of his novels became bestsellers in the U.S., he sank more & more into the twilight of Parisian cocktail parties and U.S. college lecture platforms ("an old man mad about writing," he once described himself). As a lecturer at Michigan's Olivet College in the '30s, he reminded one student of Tristram Shandy's garrulous Uncle Toby-a "vast, benevolent and harmless Uncle Toby, leaning on his stick . . . and wheezing out his stories...
...each side of the normal ranges, the authors think, there should be a twilight zone (usually five to ten points wide). In this zone, blood pressure would be looked on with suspicion and carefully rechecked, but still with no conclusion that the patient had "high" or "low" blood pressure. Such a worrisome diagnosis would not be made, they suggest, until there was a clearly abnormal level, e.g., low blood pressure for a man of 20 would be 98/56 or less, while high blood pressure would be 150/95 or more. At 40, low would begin at 102/60, and high would begin...
...headed east through the long twilight of the 55th parallel-which also crosses Moscow-over the frosted spikes of southern Alaska, and rumbled southward to bore through the storms that lay down the spine of the Rockies. At 2 a.m., in the cold, sub-zero blackness eight miles above the earth, she found the telltale bend in the Missouri River on her radar, opened her bomb bays, and sent-not a bomb, but a long flash on her radio...
Guarding themselves and keeping fit is a negative necessity; retaliating against an enemy is SAC's real job. That is why, nearly every night, the big B-36s nose through the long twilight of the 55th parallel, learning more & more about Russia's kind of weather, and how to get through it, in case of war, with their death-spreading weapons...
Little Jimmy is not even a distant relation of Nolan, the terrifying and terrified Judas of The Informer, or of the cold blooded Killer-Philosopher Michael McDara of The Assassin. In the intellectual twilight of the placid, humdrum Ireland that De Valera made, Liam O'Flaherty has become all quaintness and whimsy-and a little lost...