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...bowels of the Harvard Union, where the clattering of plates and the jangling of silver can be heard but faintly, the addicts of the ivory ball gather round the Green Table, follow the clicking white cue-ball in its geometrical course. There, in the cozy twilight, they howl and argue and relax. When their backs cluster too thickly around the play, they turn and shout for help. They cry for the arbiter of this musky underworld, and from behind the counter a grey old man, watching with cold, steel-blue eyes, rises slowly and shows the boys. And once...
...time-it is more like a novel one might imagine being written ten, or even 20 years hence. We may all be more European by then. If personal experience is to survive and have any value, and continue to be communicated by art, it must be cleansed of the twilight of vague romanticized feeling and of the received idea. ... I believe The Blaze of Noon to be an early sign of the change." The narrator is a blind masseur named Louis Duncan, who tells what happened in the Cornish household of his client, Mrs. Nance, after she had called...
...motionless silence. "The racial doctrine as interpreted in the Nazi creed is sheer, primitive nonsense . . . be proud of the race to which you belong"--Still no hurrah shouts from the audience. The catch-words of 1914 do not catch any more; their halo has faded out in the grisly twilight of reality. British youth knows that war is a messy business; and it refuses to believe the old-school patriots who represent it as a struggle for a "better world...
...twilight of academic generality the area plan emerges as a concrete problem which must be faced. For the concentration-distribution fight is more than a University Hall bicker about the technical requirements for a degree; it is a questioning of the very nature of the peculiar concoction known as a "liberal education." Harvard is not merely investigating itself; it is groping for the function and meaning of the whole educational process...
...powerful individualism, on personal banking freedom the twilight began to fall with the New Deal. The Banking Act divorced deposit banking from underwriting; three Morgan partners, including bland Henry S. Morgan (J. P.'s younger son), accordingly split off to form a new partnership, Morgan Stanley & Co. J. P.'s elder son, Junius Spencer, stayed on as a Morgan partner. The foreign loan busi ness was dead; its epitaph the Johnson Act which forbids U. S. sale of securities of governments defaulting to the U. S. Government. Meanwhile Morgan partners were retiring, dying; from the partnership their heirs...