Word: twilights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contact sooner or later. As you read, you see the picture of the land through Hardy's words, but you build up a picture of your own with your mental eye. Thus, when he describes the opening scene: "A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching the time of twilight, and the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned itself moment by moment. Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud shutting out the sky was as a tent which had the whole heath for its floor," the Vagabond gets one definite mental picture, while...
Sitting in the ruins of the Capitol at twilight, a 27-year-old Englishman named Edward Gibbon once dreamed of writing a massive work on the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. At that time the British Empire was growing strong. And to young Edward Gibbon the fall of Rome seemed a simple, faraway matter: wealth unmanned the noble Romans; Christianity enfeebled the masses; the barbarians advanced...
...list of such notable cinema disasters as the earthquake of San Francisco and the fire of In Old Chicago the spectacle of a howling zobah-hah in the Arabian desert. As cinematically reproduced, a zobah-hah is a combination of cyclone and dust storm, accompanied by squeals, floods, twilight and the expenditure of $250,000. In itself sufficient to make Suez rank as one of the major spectacles of the year, the zobah-hah is only an incident in the latest addition to the series of heroic-sized historical plays to which Producer Darryl Francis Zanuck, once a specialist...
...those sports which he enjoys playing. To the collegiate rank and file, it offers stimulus to widespread athletic participation, to pleasurable exercise directed toward the development of sound bodies for sane minds. To rapidly spreading spectator sports and grandstand gymnastics, hailed by our fashionable pessimists as the sign of twilight in a decadent generation, it deals an effective body blow...
...this new field of composition is Raymond Scott, a Brooklyn-born musician, whose brother Mark Warnow has long rated as one of the Big Ten of U. S. danceband leaders. Composer Scott, whose real name is Harry Warnow (originally Warnofsky) is the creator of a dozen-odd recordings (Twilight in Turkey, Powerhouse, War Dance for Wooden Indians, etc.). His music, whose deliberate jazz style is so sophisticated that it seems almost a caricature of jazz, has attracted the attention of such musical bigwigs as Igor Stravinsky. Last week Bandleader Paul Whiteman devoted the best part of his CBS broadcast...