Word: twilit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Deep in thought, Professor Albert Einstein, who planned to leave the U. S. this week, strolled across the twilit campus of California Institute of Technology at Pasadena. He did not at once understand why the tall palm trees had begun to dance crazily or why the students had begun running out of their dormitories. In Los Angeles, where crowds going home to dinner had complained of the sultry, oppressive atmosphere, electric lights blinked. A newspaperman, looking down on the city, saw the square 28-story tower of the City Hall sway ten feet like a huge tree. Masonry and cornices...
Genuine Chekhovians acquire an appetite for an atmosphere of twilit melancholy through which bewildered stoics make their weary way, ceaselessly confronted with frustration and despair. Nobody gets what he wants in Uncle Vanya. Michael Astrov, acted by Osgood Perkins (late editor of the Chicago Herald & Examiner in The Front Page), distinctly wants Lillian Gish, the second wife of an aged, selfish pedagog. With admirable restraint, her husband's brother-in-law, "Uncle Vanya" (Walter Connolly), also pursues Miss Gish as she floats about the stage attired in the costume of a pastel Gibson Girl. And although both Miss Gish...