Word: circusing
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...plum fool. If he was a young'un of mine, I'd whip his tail with a hickory"). Although hiring out to farmers for 25? a day at the age of nine, and working full time from ages 11 to 15, Stuart eventually-following circus and steel mill stints-graduated from Tennessee's Lincoln Memorial University. Five years later, while teaching high school back home, Stuart memorialized his mountain kinfolk with an ingenuous, affecting book of colloquial sonnets, Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow. "I was not mastering poetry," he decided. "It was mastering me." Last week...
...plus his own shrewd eye for mass entertainment, Joe Levine has emerged as an energy-charged captain in an industry full of spent majors. The new Hollywood is apt to forget the old rules, and says Levine with a Barnum air, "we are reminding everyone that this is a circus business...
...couture's most exalted runways, last week's star billing at Macy's left China all but speechless in each of her seven languages. As yet unaccustomed to the merchandising methods of the miracle workers of 34th Street, she shuddered, "It sounds a little like a circus...
Sunday Sports Spectacular (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). An aerial circus partly narrated by Flying Ace "Pappy" Boyington, in which acrobats skip about on the wings of planes in flight, board a flying aircraft from a moving car, and tell all about it while falling through the air some 6,000 ft. before pulling the parachute ripcord...
...message in a direct, compelling fashion that even those in complete disagreement must respect. You won't find a 300-voice choir or mass conversions at his lectures in Agassiz this week, but you will encounter an evangelism that is forthright and intellectually honest, rare attractions in the circus world of American evangelism...