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...part of the life of the nation. The symbols of religion are everywhere. Kyoto, the ancient capital, has more shrines and temples than cigarette shops. There are even Shinto altars in numerous offices of major cities. New skyscrapers are often decorated with red-and-white-striped sheets of Shinto cloth. Rural village homes, where traditional spirituality survives, typically have both a kamidana (Shinto altar) and a butsudan (Buddhist altar...
...which are members of chains like the Relais and Châteaux grouping. The 16th century Château L'Esclimont, less than an hour's drive west of Paris, is set among undulating hills inside a walled 150-acre wild park. A balconied apartment, with terry-cloth bathrobes, curtained beds and a bowl of cherries awaiting the guests' arrival, can be had for a bit more than $100. The 43-room castle has an excellent restaurant where a seven-course meal costs $33 a person, wine and tips not included...
...stories recounted by Haile Selassie's personal aides, like the keeper of the dog Lulu, which regularly irrigated the shoes of officials who danced attendance on the Emperor. Recalled the keeper: "I had to walk among the dignitaries and wipe the urine from their shoes with a satin cloth. This was my job for ten years." The function of another aide was to act as the monarch's animated timepiece, bowing several times as "a signal to His Perspicacious Majesty that one hour was ending and that the time had come to start another...
While IBM's stern dress code has been eased, Opel still follows the old one. His shirts are white oxford cloth and as buttoned down as the man. His ties are impeccable and subdued, his shoes standard-issue corporate cordovans: no buckles, tassels or other frills...
...remarkable aspect of this archaeological reconstruction is not that Wodehouse lives; he is far more robust between cloth covers than in the theater, where he is bereft of narrative and description. The evening demonstrates only one astonishment. Edward Duke, the entire cast of Jeeves Takes Charge, is a festival of upper-class twits, from the harrumphing members of The Drones, young Bertie Wooster's club, to the nattering dames, to the one true aristocrat of Wodehouse's canon: the immortal, if tiresome Jeeves...