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...wary of pomp and circumstance. "Since it appears to be necessary to have certain inequalities in status in the church ... let us make certain that the more status a member or minister has the more simple be his dress and attitude ... A simple cassock is generally a better Christian garb for the highest member of the clergy than cape and miter." (Blake himself wears a stiff clerical collar, which is permissible but unusual for Presbyterian ministers, and a cassock...
...personable, soft-spoken Negro named Wiley Rowe, 29, in the reverse collar and black habit of a priest, was unfrocked last week by Detroit police for passing a bad check in a jewelry store. A former theology student, he had changed his mission in life but not his garb ("The clerical outfit is impressive, and immediately people tend to trust you"). Having thus accumulated more than $35,000 in less than six months, he confided cheerfully that he had no qualms about posing as a priest. "You see," said Wiley, "I'm an agnostic...
...invitational; in rebellion, a group of painters banded together to set up nearby a vying exhibit of their own. This year, the Festival reverted to a policy of holding an open competition; and it instructed the all-artist selection juries "to seek out artistic essence in whatever form or garb it may appear...
Wystan Hugh Auden is a chameleon among modern poets. He has moved from Marxism to Anglo-Catholicism, changed with startling ease from the gay garb of a tart poetaster to the grave robes of the searcher for ultimate truth. He often goes back over his poems and revises them to conform with his new sentiments. From some of his work, as his thinking turned increasingly conservative, he dropped scathing references to dons, capitalists and churchmen-for instance these lines written...
...court, and the rest of the ballet is merely a "court entertainment,'' a kind of Balanchine variety show. In a swirl of color, foreign visitors to the court strut the stage dressed in everything from the gaudily feathered headdress of West Indians to the pink and gold garb of Eastern potentates. Highlights of the evening: a fluently elegant pas de deux between Jacques d'Amboise and Melissa Hayden, and a rousing Scottish number whose stately classical movements were abruptly interrupted by the splayed gestures of a country reel...