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...hearing lasted no more than a minute. Suddenly, after an ordeal that had spanned five court appearances and three days in jail, the couple was acquitted. "This is a great day," Rietbauer said, "not just for us, but for all the other people who have been living in the twilight for so long. I think South Africa is at last growing up." In the colored township of Eersterus, outside Pretoria, Clive Fisher, a colored glazier, eagerly set about making plans for a formal church wedding to his English-born partner, Adele White, with whom he has been living for five...
...pack his tools. "I must have given a hundred talks," he remarks. "Each time I say the same thing: save the barns! People listen, but they don't act." On the Baker place, the sheep barn's rectangular skeleton now glows softly, a spare Doric temple in the twilight. Babcock touches the smoothly hewn frame with a hammer-size hand. "Look how carefully they worked. They thought they were building for the future." He brightens into a smile. "And today, we saved one. Gramps would be pleased." --By Kenneth W. Banta
...hear him tell it, all it took was a little luck. The reality? He’ll exercise that combination of talent and diamond savvy long after the twilight of his Cambridge days...
Biographer Patricia O’Toole tells the story of Roosevelt’s twilight in the concise, smooth prose that one would expect from the Columbia University writing teacher that she is. In When Trumpets Call, released by Simon & Schuster last month, O’Toole draws upon a wealth of primary sources—including several collections of letters of Roosevelt’s family members that are stashed away in Harvard’s Houghton Library—to offer the reader a glimpse into TR’s most private thoughts...
...wasteland was sprinkled with islands of worth: news programs, those last bastions of truth in a swirling sea of superficiality, were always there to inform, frankly and objectively. Americans could sleep peacefully knowing that the Rather-Brokaw-Jennings triumvirate could always be counted on to emerge from the evening twilight, ready to tell an anxious nation how to think and what to believe...