Word: circusing
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...Bear Circus by William Pène du Bois. 48 pages. Viking. $4.95. The author can do more with 26 koala bears in a gum tree, a plague of locusts and a pocketful of friendly kangaroos than you could imagine. Scenic but thin...
...only say how very funny that the Communist countries now meet in the U.S., to dictate their will to the U.S., supported by U.S. funds. Perhaps now the U.S. citizens will realize that the U.N. is a big circus and that they are the clowns, for they are footing the bill...
...Delhi last week, civil defense forces staged two blackouts to prepare the capital's 3,630,000 residents for the possible outbreak of open warfare with Pakistan. Both blackouts failed miserably. While half the city was plunged into darkness, Connaught Circus, New Delhi's Times Square, remained lit up like a Christmas tree...
...following week, Harvard came up against Holy Cross, and the Crimson blasted the Crusaders, 53-0, in what was termed an "aerial circus...
...sentimental that they stand to Picasso's work rather as the death of Little Nell does to Dickens'. At this early stage one can see, especially in the Rose Period, that urge toward nostalgic generalization that repeatedly crept into Picasso's art in later years. The circus performers in Family of Saltimbanques (8) are conceived in the manner of a Watteau fête champêtre, and Picasso apparently tried to rival the psychological tension of glance and gesture in that master's work; their fragile simplicity is idealized; it is a bruised, poor Arcadia...