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Italian art these days is a three-ring circus. Painter Filippo de Pisis, 55, seems as out of place in it as a hummingbird in a cage of acrobatic bears. While his countrymen have been shooting off futuristic fireworks or ponderously balancing metaphysics and Marxism, he has darted and hovered, recording the surface of things, in glancing, wing-light strokes...
...Circus-day excitement reigned in the state capital at Austin when he landed, with his wife and son, for his first public appearance in four weeks. They conquered, as they had in Washington, New York...
John Monro, who has been playing the Illinois circuit for Harvard during the past several years, says that "the travelling circus of admissions counselors descends on a high school like locusts." Monro explains that he takes a table, plunks down some pamphlets, hangs up a Harvard banner, sees a few harried students and parents, and then pulls up stakes for the next town's "College...
...circus impresario's wife gets him his strangest task. Thanks to her, he signs on as a lion tamer, finds that his job is to lie down with a beefsteak on his chest and let a lion eat the steak. A dress rehearsal and one performance cool his ardor for the impresario's wife. It turns out that the impresario uses her as a regular decoy to line up human steak platters. Between catastrophes, H. Hatterr asks himself the perennial questions of philosophy, some piffling, some reaching toward profundity: "Why is an evening paper published in the afternoon...
John Monro, who has been playing the Illinois circuit for Harvard during the past several years, says that "the travelling circus of admissions counselors descends on a high school like locusts." Monro explains that he takes a table, plunks down some pamphlets, hangs up a Harvard banner, sees a few harried students and parents, and then pulls up stakes for the next town's "College...