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Thus, with a smell of the circus, professional track-a slickly packaged, hyped-up version of the oldest athletic show on earth-will officially vault into existence this Saturday night. Along with Olympian Carlos, the Big Show will feature Old Rivals Kip Keino and Jim Ryun competing in the mile, as well as Champion Shotputters Randy Matson and Brian Oldfield. Dallas Cowboys' Wide Receiver Bob Hayes, once known as the "fastest man on earth," will test his speed against Washington Redskin Defensive Back Clancy Williams in a 40-yd. sprint...
...carrying on one old Synanon tradition: subjecting members to rituals of a kind that Sociologist Erving Goffman calls "degradation ceremonies." New male residents are required to shave their heads; women are compelled to go without makeup for as long as six months. All residents must take part in "the circus," Delancey Street's version of the Synanon "game." Under the leadership of a "ringmaster," members indulge in three-hour bouts of name-calling and mutual criticism. Admits Family Member George Lopez: "We put people together by first taking them apart; it can be rough, really rough...
...often the contents come to resemble acrobatic acts and freak displays which can find common shelter only under the circus big top. What can one say about statements like...
...with a wholly different set of tools by which to find them, tools which cannot be linked with traditional analysis and which (as radical economists would have us believe) render communication between believers and non-believers impossible. A university, as I understand it, is not a multiple-ring circus where rival theologies parade their paradigms in competition, but a place where reasonable men argue with each other seeking mutual understanding and insights. All views should participate in this process but all participants should subscribe to these ground rules of common enterprise in reasoning...
...Clown's Evening, Bergman's first masterpiece, sums up attitudes Bergman had suggested in his films of the preceding three years. During the course of a single day's action, we see the owner of an impoverished travelling circus and his mistress, the bare-back rider, each betray the other. Albert tries to return to the wife he had left long ago. Anne, partly in retaliation, has a pitiful affair with a condescending actor. Both are rejected in these attempts to escape the circus life, and, after still further torment, the day ends with the pair together again, walking...