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...less bothered by the Leavis barrage than the 2,000 scarlet-robed students of St. Andrews, who have the unusual tradition of electing someone likable and lustrous to represent them on the university's governing council. Hard by the renowned golf course, St. Andrews is known for its equitable violence of yore. Protestant Reformer George Wishart was burned there in 1546, and two months later his nemesis, David Cardinal Beaton, was hanged from the local castle window...
Some of Strindberg's Paris paintings are depressing studies in black, grey and various shades of brown. Others are shrill compositions of hard whites and yellows, oranges and blues, set against a frame of green that is liberally sprinkled with scarlet and purple dots. In one, the colors blend into something resembling mother-of-pearl; another was obviously begun by rubbing together two pieces of cardboard wet with color to make what Strindberg called "automatic painting." The show is about to take the grand tour: when it closes in Ulm, it will move to the Museum of Modern...
...single egg in the dark blue egg cup with a gold ring round the top was boiled for three and a third minutes . . . Then there were two slices of wholewheat toast, a large pat of deep yellow Jersey butter and three squat glass jars containing Tiptree 'Little Scarlet' strawberry jam; Cooper's Vintage Oxford marmalade and Norwegian Heather Honey from Fortnum's. The coffeepot and the silver on the tray were Queen Anne and the china was Minton." One memorable meal, in Moonraker, takes 6½ pages for Bond to order...
...courage of churchmen behind the Iron Curtain, the Pope read off the names of his choices. At the end he asked, in the time-honored ritual phrase, "Quid vobis videtur? [What do you think?]" In the sign of an assent that is now automatic, the cardinals doffed their scarlet zucchetta (skullcaps). The Pope pronounced the words of appointment: "By the authority of Almighty God, of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul and of ourself, we appoint"-and here, one by one, the Pope named the men-"to be cardinals, in the name of the Father...
...suburbs. But a cardinal is also, next to the Pope, the most privileged and the most powerful cleric in the Roman Catholic Church. As one of the most spectacular dressers of Christendom, he has to lay out at least $3,000 for his cassocks and skullcaps of scarlet and purple* (which are worn during Lent, Advent and other times of penance and mourning), his white lace rochets, silk sashes, and the splendid cappa magna - a 15-ft-long scarlet train worn on solemn liturgical occasions. As a member of the church's senate, a cardinal advises the Pope...