Word: barnumism
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That generally mollifies the mark -which confirms what was said many years ago by another behavioral expert, P.T. Barnum: "There's a sucker born every minute...
...sure glad to see you; it was nice of you to come," the midget said to the cardinal. Terence Cardinal Cooke, the only American member of a commission created by Pope Paul VI for "people on the move," was celebrating his first Mass for the Ringling Bros, and Barnum and Bailey circus in Madison Square Garden. "How blessed you are," Cooke said to the assembled animal trainers, jugglers, clowns and workmen, "to spend your lives dedicated to a profession that makes people smile...
Rimoin believes that most dwarfs can be helped, physically and mentally. Indeed, he says, even Tom Thumb, the midget exhibited and exploited by Circus Impresario P.T. Barnum, could have achieved near-normal growth had treatment been available 100 years ago. But with that treatment, Rimoin admits, Tom would probably never have become rich and famous...
...Barnum didn't die and it was revived in 1920 with a bigger budget--$12,000--unheard of until that time. The next production, Westward Ho! tipped the scales at $16,000, although it ended up several hundred dollars in the red due to extravagance and poor management. Since then the Pudding shows have grown larger and more expensive. This year's Bewitched Bayou is budgeted at a healthy...
...PUDDING BUBBLED into the twentieth century, turning out a few good shows and many more atrocious ones. One can draw an historical line separating the "modern" and "pre-modern" Pudding eras at World War I. In the spring of 1917, Robert Sherwood '18 had his Barnum Was Right hip-deep into rechearsals with opening night a bare fortnight away. The show was abruptly cancelled and the entire cast marched off to war. Several received decorations for bravery. One of the principle characters and six chorus "girls" gave their lives. Sherwood himself left to serve in the Canadian Black Watch...