Word: twilighter
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...cage home of plaited bamboo and braided palm-fronds on the weatherside beach of a coral lagoon, I commence reading-and on I read from the red hour of sunrise to hot, windless midday, through a breeze-freshened afternoon to a rose and lilac sunset, into the brief purple twilight and, lamp flame at full height, right up to when the Southern Cross is directly overhead at midnight. Day after day, night after night-the schedule never varies...
Last week he lined up a gallery of Pan-European supporters. Among them: Austrian Novelist-Playwright Franz Werfel (The Song of Bernadette, The Twilight of a World, Jacobowski and the Colonel); Fernando de los Rios, onetime Ambassador of Republican Spain in Washington; French Playwright Henry Bernstein; Nellos Camellopoulos, onetime member of the Greek Parliament; Businessman Edouard Müller (Nestlé Chocolate), formerly of Switzerland. Said they: only a continental confederation can "coordinate the common political, economic and military interests of Europe and the personal rights of all Europeans...
...last vision of victory was fading, and in the German mind sounded the brassy strains of a Götterdämmerung, the twilight of a nation...
...friendly. Larry Whipp glowed with the news that his passport was ready for a holiday trip to the U.S. At 4 p.m. the organist put his grey soft hat on his balding head, picked up his neatly rolled umbrella and walked out into Auteuil's gloomy Sunday twilight. No one has seen hide nor hair of him since...
...twilight time between war's end and peacetime industry's resumption, how many men will tramp the streets looking for work? At least four or five million, says Richard Allen Lester, associate professor of economics at Duke University. In the newest study sponsored by the Committee for Economic Development (Providing for Unemployed Workers in the Transition; McGraw-Hill $1.50), Economist Lester gave his formula for easing the shock of mass unemployment on the nation and its workers...