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...formation. The second-liners-young and old, black and white, genteel and funky, sober and not entirely so-press in upon the band's flanks, spill onto the sidewalks, straggle across the avenue's landscaped divider. Leading it all is a stately, gray-haired man in a frock coat and a silvered, tasseled sash, a spangled umbrella furled under his arm, a top hat held over his heart; and, alongside him, a shorter man, similarly gray and with similar bearing and similar attire. Thanks to confusion resulting from the mix of bands, the procession has wound up with...
...events swept him along, and he improvised to meet them. Some of Roosevelt's aides are still around town. They recall drafting new legislation in the Mayflower Hotel even as F.D.R. gave his Inaugural Address, then rushing the documents to members of Congress still in their toppers and frock coats...
...more than a bureaucratic inconvenience: "So small a phenomenon as the passport picture is an example of something tiny which has powerfully affected the modern sensibility, assisting that anxious self-awareness, that secret but overriding self-contempt, which we recognize as attaching uniquely to the world of P frock and Joseph K. and Malone." In addition, the war left Europe with a bewildering new set of national boundaries images of border crossings began cropping up in literature. Writes Fussell: "The way up to imitate an early Auden poem is to , as many frontiers into it as possible...
...stalled by a standoff between the Greater London Council, which wants to rehabilitate the square speedily, and the more snail-paced local Westminster Council, which objects to the statue on aesthetic grounds. So six months after he was cast, Chaplin still stands, replete with crooked cane, cockeyed derby, sagging frock coat, baggy pants and oversize shoes, in the studio of Sculptor John Doubleday, 33. It was a bureaucratic impasse that the maker of Modern Times would have relished...
...Diaghilev ballet, that for Nemtchinova in the adagietto in Les Biches, reached its final form, are therefore of interest. We have seen how Laurencin's nebulous watercolors had been evolved by Sudeikina and Kochno ... Nemtchinova appeared before Diaghilev's eyes in a long blue velvet frock-coat, like that of a head porter in a hotel. 'Give me the scissors, Grigoriev!' Diaghilev exclaimed. He cut away the collar, to make a wide V-neck. He cut away the velvet, till it barely covered the buttocks. Nemtchinova had never shown so much leg before (what ballerina...