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...head of every member of the Foot Guards, for example, rises half a Canadian bearskin; from the helmet of the Household Cavalryman sprouts a plume of yak hairs. Whenever the army's 88 military bands wheel into action, the soldiers who carry the big bass drums drape themselves in the skins of leopards and tigers...
...black clothing of the women who hold them. Over and over, the worshippers sitting on cushions around the floor sing to the accompaniment of three guitars a hymn that stresses the unity of the members of the Church. At one end of the room, hung on a deep purple drape, is a silver cross; at the other end, over a black curtain, is a red representation of the horned goat of Mendes, a symbol of Satan...
...this country tend to be done in languages which neither the singers nor the audience understand, mainly to spare everyone the agony of an evening of insipid plot and badly worded dialogue. This is especially true of the comic opera, where a libretto is mainly a skeleton to drape music around, and the plot is filled with improbabilities acted out by impossible characters...
When the keepers of the wall heard reports of the attacks, they considered their options. They could tear down the wall. They could plug up the holes. Or they could disguise the wall, drape plants over the holes, vary its height to blend it into the landscape. But they couldn't just leave things as they were. The rocks were becoming noisy, and the men inside the tower were finding it very difficult to work...
...distracted from their pursuit of knowledge." Since stones thrown closest hit hardest, the report makes exceptions to its investment guidelines in case involving the "surrounding community." It is the stonethrowers-especially those within the walls-who worry the Committee. So they have chosen to cover up the wall, drape it over with interdisciplinary faculties and fact-finders and equivocations. They have chosen not to tear down the pretext of a billion-dollar corporation existing solely as a "center of free inquiry." They have chosen not to plug up the holes through which Harvard channels money to irresponsible corporations. They have...