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Insistent in adult ears, the rhythmic tick-tick-tick of jump ropes sounded last week across the land. From Atlanta to San Francisco, from Boston to Dallas, the shrill chant of little-girl voices made loud the early morning's quiet and the twilight's repose. To the irascible, the runes sounded much as ever, but a careful listener could detect differences. In Dallas, little girls chanted...
...period between the two Visitations of the comet was a tough time for humans and other inhabitants of the earth. The Chinese, he says, called this era the "Valley of Obscurity" and the "Somber Residence"; the Nordics called it the "Twilight of the Gods"; the Hebrews the "Shadow of Death...
...world last week, man's fey behavior was undoubtedly affecting other members of the animal kingdom. In Honolulu, pearl fishermen made plans to dope stubborn oysters into yielding up their precious pearls, by a drug said by its sponsor to resemble that used by obstetricians in inducing "twilight sleep." In Thaxted, Essex, a theatrical scene painter unveiled a gasoline-powered mechanical elephant that walked at 28 m.p.h., flapped its ears, carried eight passengers, a license plate and a taillight...
...North African jaunt was bringing out the worst in it. In the little Arab town of Bou Noura, they lay on a hotel bed fully clothed, getting drunk on a bottle of Scotch. A mosquito netting kept off the vicious flies, and as they talked, the star-studded African twilight fell and native drums kept up an insistent rhythm. Being wealthy and intense young New York intellectuals, Kit and Port Moresby glibly fell into lingo so appropriate that Noel Coward might have written it in a fit of melancholia...
...talk in scientific analogies are part of his crusade to re-emphasize craftsmanship, rather than inspiration, in composition. He rejects entirely the esthetics of Romanticism, which define creativity as a mystical experience, writing down music drawn from the blue. He is impatient with those who still refuse to explore "twilight" areas in music such as melody. Everything can and should be analyzed...