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...course of his wide-ranging fantasies, the hero of James Joyce's Ulysses imagined himself invested with the scarlet mantle and gold chain of the Lord Mayor of Dublin. To Joyce, Leopold Bloom's dream was doubly fanciful because-he was a Jew−and what chance would a Jew have of becoming major of Dublin town...
Academic Giggles. At Oxford University Truman donned a scarlet, orange and grey gown, plumped a round velvet academic cap over his grey hair, stood before 1,200 in Christopher Wren's 17th century Sheldonian Theatre to receive his degree. Public Orator T. F. Higham, in stately Latin (Truman was furnished a pony in advance), praised the ex-President for the Berlin airlift, the North Atlantic Treaty, "the initiative he took in defending Korea." Higham drew academic giggles with a parody on the Aeneid that recalled Truman's 1948 upset victory over Dewey: "Heu vatum igname mentes! Quid vota...
Escorted to the gates of the Yard by a troop of scarlet-coated mounted lancers, Massachusetts Governor Christian A. Herter '15 will begin Harvard's 305th Commencement with traditions dating back...
...adagio. Sombert is lovely in this lyric piece, and Youskevitch is starkly splendid in his solo dance. The clown, mad with jealousy, climbs to the wire. He will prove, though he dies, that he is a man, and die he does. He lies broken in his lady's scarlet mantle, like a white bird in a pool of blood...
...times since World War II the good women of Japan have tried to strip the cloak of legal protection from the backs of their scarlet sisters...