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...responsible positions in the army. Elon concedes that no people can go on feeling guilty forever; still, he is pained at the philistinism he finds among West German politicians, who seem determined to blank out the past. But he admires the attitude expressed by Catholic Writer Heinrich Boll (The Clown). "The sum of suffering was too great," says Boll, "to attribute it to the few who were un equivocally guilty; a part remained and has not been accounted for until today...
Several months ago the director of MacBird approached my gallery with the idea of using a 1961 painting of mine called Clown in Armor as a backdrop for his production of MacBird. I did not wish to be associated with this play and refused him my permission...
From Cassius Sr. comes the sideshow clown that the Champ's fans know and loathe so well. The father, says Olsen, is a tiny, mercurial man "whose arguments take the form of loud outbursts accompanied by agitated wavings of the arms; he stutters and swallows and backs up and repeats and runs into the bathroom to spit. He has no speech defect except an uncontrollable urge to be heard right now." The Clays have had a stormy marriage, and most family members believe that their battles, which often were refereed at the local police precinct in Louisville, contributed...
COLISEUM (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Dinah Shore taped two shows on her recent trip to Russia. The first one features the Moscow State Circus, with Popov the clown, the Bubnov aerialists and the Kantemirov daredevil horseback riders...
...Clown on bassoon: He is a practical joker. It figures, say fellow musicians, because anybody who takes up such a contrary and ridiculous instrument must have a sense of humor. Ever since Mendelssohn made the bassoon a buffoon in a clown march, the bassoonist has been trying to prove that the instrument is a gentleman or at least a pagliaccio, a clown with a soul. But nobody believes...