Word: twilights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...following day, Mather spoke directly against the oath. His address, entitled "The Twilight of Democracy," drew immediate reaction both in the Boston press and from President Conant. "Teaching in an institution like Harvard must not become a state function; if it does, education is doomed to stagnation and the twilight of democracy will deepen into blackest night," Mather stated...
Advantages of the system, with reduction of physical restraints, were widely recognized and discussed in the 1870s by the American Psychiatric Association. But in North America, as in much of Europe, this was the twilight of a new Dark Age for the mentally ill. More and more of the mentally ill were herded into gigantic barracks, usually out in the country, to be out of sight and out of mind...
Look Back in Anger. A glimpse through an attic window into a twilight society that looks forward to the past. With Richard Burton as the original Angry Young...
Look Back in Anger. A glimpse through an attic window into a twilight society that looks forward to the past. With Richard Burton as the original Angry Young...
...older, flickering, brownish black-and-white film. Blind street singers grind out a Weill-ish ballad, one playing a hand organ, the other tapping a drum with sticks taped to his elbows. A dying consumptive girl cries out in fear of the whiteness of the window in the early twilight. But, even though the color is muted in these scenes, it protrudes everywhere; and the directing seems to feel obligated to follow the color--to feel obligated to keep everything clean and bright, to remain aloof, to treat the pathos as though it were an awkward intrusion which must...