51.   Remember how he hung around just long enough to turn lifeless stick figure Charles Fried into a real action hero with political muscle pulsing beneath his flowing black robes?

52.   Respect is not necessarily automatic, even for the wearers of black robes.

53.   She is a preacher, a psychologist and a lie detector in a black robe.

54.   She thinks all lawyers should come before the bench draped in the British-style black robes still mandatory in higher Canadian courts.

55.   Some women wore hijabs and a few men had the skull caps and black robes of Muslim religious leaders.

56.   So for a year I ate at High Table without a black robe.

57.   Something has gone seriously wrong when learned, thoughtful people in black robes engage in intellectual back flips to avoid confronting the essential injustice of a thing like that.

58.   Supreme Court justices have worn unadorned, solid black robes for as long as anyone can remember.

59.   That means witnesses and documents that a total stranger in a black robe can evaluate years after the fact.

60.   That was when Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist appeared on the bench in a black robe adorned with four gold stripes on each sleeve.