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...reminiscent of the Faust legend, Harlequin represents "human aspiration reborn with the flowers in April. This aspiration makes it possible for him to break away from the plants, who are earthbound and self-sufficient." As the curtains draw back, you see Pierrot, the fool, garbed in a baggy white robe. Using magic, he transforms what looks like a mound of objects into humans who writhe as it in Dante's Interno. The mystic mood is extremely moving, especially when Pirman Treeu battles with an ever-increasing host of unicorns to win Columbine. Treeu is one of the most powerful...
Last week he got distressing news. His only opponent in Allahabad, 52-year-old Prabhudatt Brahmachari, who wears a luxuriant grey beard, orange-and red-rimmed spectacles, a saffron robe and a long white loincloth, had been quietly building up the vote. Quietly was the word for it: he had done it without uttering a single sound, except an occasional loud laugh...
Iran's lower house of Parliament, the Majlis, was transformed into one of the strangest lodging houses in history. In one wing, six actors and three actresses rehearsed a French play called Robe Rouge for presentation in the Majlis gardens. The production was originally scheduled for Teheran's Saadi Theater, but Mossadegh's nationalist hoodlums, suspecting something leftist about the theater, had wrecked it. The Majlis, traditional refuge from political persecution, was the only safe place left for the players...
...occasion for famous outsiders-presidents or prime ministers or politicians. The most important guests who showed up were all in the academic family. Lord Halifax had come in scarlet robe to represent Grandfather Oxford. President James B. Conant was on hand for Father Harvard. And 38 presidents, deans, and professors had come in behalf of the 41 daughter campuses that Yale-men had either founded or first presided over (among them: President Harold W. Dodds of Princeton, James P. Baxter of Williams, Deane W. Malott of Cornell, Detlev Bronk of Johns Hopkins...
Wrapped in his long-fringed, white prayer shawl, and dressed in a white linen robe, Rabbi Finkelstein stood on the dais; looking to the East, with his back to the congregation, he faced the Ark of the Covenant. On the lectern before him lay the great scrolls of the Torah, the book of the law of Moses. Rabbi Finkelstein's clenched right hand beat upon his breast in the traditional gesture of sorrow. Clear and strong, in the twang and guttural of the Hebrew chant, his voice rose...