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Mencken poured his scorn on U.S. life, its culture and its government. Presidents consorted with "rogues and ignoramuses"; the Senate was "perhaps the windiest and most tedious group of men in Christendom." He decided that "democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage," that a pastor is "one employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay." His targets ranged from the ancient Greeks ("Greek tragedy, that unparalleled bore, is confined almost wholly to actresses who have grown too fat for Ibsen") to chiropractors ("heroic pummeling...
Berliners were happy, but they did not dance in the streets. A few hundred, with garlands of lilac and forsythia, waited quietly under a bright moon to welcome the first motor traffic from the free West. That honor went to U.S. correspondents, who staged a pressmen's circus, racing their cars along the Autobahn (and into the headlines back home). Next day was a school holiday, and the black, red & gold flag of the old Weimar Republic, now the banner of the new West German state, flew everywhere-20,000 flags had been shipped in by Allied airlift...
This newspaper is looking around for a man who has a childlike sense of humor and who feels indiscriminate affection for animals. Such a man is needed to do the paper's circus reviews. In his absence, however, the job must continue to be done, and if the present reviewer has no sense of humor at all, and if he like only a few selected domesticated dogs and horses, and finds uniquely unappealing the sight of an elephant carrying with its trunk another elephant's tail, he at least responds like all normal American children to such marvelous human beings...
...first is a superb juggler, the second stands on the forefinger of his right hand in astonishingly precarious locations, and the third skips rope on a very high wire. Such performances are the stuff that circuses are made of. Everything they wear, every move they make, is vivid, dramatic, extravagant. Brunn generates more color than all the John Murray Anderson extravaganzas put together. Never for the a second does he stand still. Not does he ever simply catch anything; he grabs things out of the air. He is showman, and the circus is nothing if it is not a show...
...People of the United State and to All the Free Peoples of the Earth Who Place Their Faith In the Leadership of the President of Our Country in the Struggle to Maintain Their Way of Life Against the Menacing Hordes of World Aggressors. A nifty little sentiment, that. No circus nowadays is complete without...