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...growing list of male garb appropriated by feminine fashion (oxford shirts, cut-down chinos, cuff links), something new has been added. Perched on pretty heads all along the East Coast, the man's straw is this summer's last word. Sales of the soft straws, reported conservative Brooks Brothers, have been "amazing." Said a pert teen-ager at Long Island's Southampton: "This year you're behind the times unless you're wearing a soft straw...
...last of the lot, spade-bearded El Amin, had a passionate concern for antique clocks, and an urge to garb himself in bemedaled uniforms of the old Ottoman army. He made an impressive showpiece at royal functions, never bothered to learn French, and gazed tolerantly at the antics of a huge and predatory family...
...second largest religious order (largest: the Society of Jesus, membership 33,000), wound up their first convention in six years. The scene: Assisi. The 94 friars from 31 countries who met for a two-week General Chapter represented some 30,000 Franciscans, O.F.M. (Order of Friars Minor). Their garb, if not vile, was still mostly the traditional brown, rough cloth and sandals. As for their discourse, it was anything but brief...
...vacuo. But a good Othello is impossible without a good Iago, and vice versa. Alfred Drake shows here that he can excel in something besides musical comedy. He brings a welcome restrained maturity to the role, and we are spared the moustache-twirling, eyeball-rolling villain. Instead of black garb with cape, how refreshing to see Iago in a series of brown costumes! Although he occasionally indulges in too studied a pose, he handles his lines with nuanced variety, often spitting them out rapidly in keeping with Iago's lightning-quick intellect. But more than that, we sense the Machiavellianism...
...Mount Koya, south of Osaka in Japan, are scores of ancient temples and pilgrim hostels that make up the spiritual center of the influential Buddhist sect called Shingon-shu. Last week the shaven-pated monks of Shingon-shu climbed out of their black robes into a strange new garb called a baseball uniform, began pitching a stitched leather ball around and swinging at it with a wooden club called...