Word: twilights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fitting eulogy of a glorious ruling House whose power is no more, comes Bertita Harding's Imperial Twilight, a stirring account of the lives of Karl and Zita of Hapsburg. Purposely avoiding more than a bare outline of the historical and political background, the author focuses almost her sole attention on the ill starred war-time rulers, struggling valiantly to hold together a tottering empire, whose collapse the outbreak of that first world conflagration rendered inevitable...
...incessantly trumpeted that mankind is on the biological skids, that man had better find out what to do about it and then do it before it is too late. That was his message in Apes, Men and Morons (TIME, Nov. 8, 1937), and that is still his message in Twilight of Man, published last week.* "Here," says Dr. Hooton, "is more raucous crying in the wilderness. . . . Human behavior has continued to deteriorate." Hooton feels that his is a voice in a wilderness because: 1) men like to think of themselves not as imperfect and unstable animal organisms but as vessels...
...Twilight of Man is illustrated with Hooton's own drawings, one of which thoroughly illustrates the phenomenon of steatopygia - an accumulation of fat on the posterior - which appears in the females of some primitive human types, and which probably helped some women of the Glacial Period to keep warm when skimpier males crowded them from the fire. Hooton "apologizes" for his drawings thus: "Amateur illustration by an author is like profanity in conversation. It probably serves no useful purpose and certainly is shocking and objectionable to many, but the perpetrator enjoys...
Whether he is describing the sick terror in a Berlin Jewish apartment, twilight in the New Forest, or a Gestapo going-over ("Mr. Emmanuel was not a very satisfactory subject, for he fainted almost at once, and twice again during the proceedings. But on each occasion a jug of cold water revived him, and they got to work again"), Novelist Golding works for the reader's sympathy with practiced skill. He has that sympathy in full measure long before his battered but indomitable hero gets safely home again...
...post-War twilight, Speyer & Co. floated many a foreign loan, financed railroads, built a railroad in Bolivia, power plants in Manila. But Speyer's London firm was dissolved in 1922; in 1934 the Lazard-Speyer-Ellissen banks in Berlin and Frankfurt were dissolved. Latterly Speyer & Co. has fallen into the sere and yellow leaf...