Word: pagliaccio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).-Richard (Have Gun) Boone takes off his shooting irons and gets tricked up as a circus "Charlie" (clown). Naturally, un der the makeup, he is another Pagliaccio...