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...week-long festivities climax on Mardi-Gras Day, or "Fat Tuesday," when the oldest, most traditional krewes--"Rex" and "Comus"--hold their celebrations. On that day, everyone, young and old, dons a bizarre costume and by 10 a.m. the entire city is drunk, reveling in a combination Halloween-New Year's Eve craziness. The Rex King--a wealthy New Orleans civic leader--glides downtown to toast his young Queen in a ritual unchanged for a century...
Later, invited guests attend a white-tie ball where the gold-bedecked Rex King and Queen, atop a splendid throne, receive the curtsies and bows of New Orleans debutantes and their escorts. Then, the shimmering pair, their flowing, ermine-studded trains in the care of ten-year-old pages, begin the "meeting of the courts," at which the silver-adorned members of the Comus Court, including dukes and maids, exchange elaborate greetings with Rex Royalty...
...same time, "we are glad that we are not one of them." The words belong to the children, who learned them from their parents and, in turn, will most likely pass them on down to their children. Entitlement explained why a blonde haired man sitting at the Rex celebration of Mardis Gras feels entitled to sit there and defend the privileges of the white minority in South Africa. And while this year's Mardi Gras celebrations were quiet, New Orleans did indeed have "its troubles" back in the '60s. Perhaps Coles's optimistic advice is best taken by both sides...
...long, gangling figure springing about beneath a jolly mop of brown hair. Best is his voice, which he uses like a virtuoso, rasping out some lines, snarling others like Burgess Meredith, or shooting up into a terribly British falsetto a la Rex Harrison. He conveys the tremendous nervous energy trapped inside him, which, unable to escape, manufactures a haggard lethargy; but here again the production seems unsettlingly close-to-life: Is it Simon Bruhl feverishly bored by the drying up of his creative juices, or John Wood feverishly bored by the obviousness of his role...
...year older than Elizabeth-was fellow and lecturer in classics at Wadham. (He became Warden in 1938). Bowra was already a celebrated talent-spotter and host; among those who were just finishing their undergraduate careers in the mid-1920s, and who came and went within his circle, were Rex Warner, Cecil Day Lewis, Brian Howard, Cyril Connolly, Kenneth Clark, Henry Yorke (Henry Green), John Betjeman, Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Powell, John Sparrow, Isaiah Berlin, AJ. Ayer . . . There were giants in the earth in those days, but if in those days they were giants it was still within the context of their...