Word: tamers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...value of the book. Mr. Duncan understands the people in his novel; he allows each the perspective of a lifetime and successfully defines the mixture of lunacy and showmanship that makes a trooper. A keen-witted horse trader from Vermont, a bewildered pair of acrobats, and a lion tamer with a complex for abusing both cats and women are all drawn with infinite shading and welded together through the common denominator of their business...
...waited in the big steel practice cage, Dick Clemens didn't look much like a lion tamer. The cage was in his backyard outside Peoria. Dick had just come out of the house in an old felt hat and a checkered woolen shirt. He looked more like a leathery, slow-moving farmer. But that was because you couldn't see much of his hide. He'd been working with cat acts for 30 years and he had scars all over him. Doctors had taken 118 stitches in his back and dozens more in his arms and legs...
...Swingman Charlie Barnet, whose white band had been one of the few wild enough to tickle Harlem's native ear: "Tension music was okay during the war. Now we're done with it." He was about to cut down his 21-piece swing band to a smaller, tamer one because loud music hadn't paid well enough lately. Said he: "I'm one of the worst offenders. I have six trumpet men. Imagine that...
...Ship, an ancient Tudor pub with sawdust on the floor, overlooking the finish line. Publican Gus Foster, an ex-lion tamer, thought some of the old boat-race flavor was missing. He remembered the time he bet his shirt against a lady's blouse-and won. "She took off her blouse right in the public bar," he said. "She was a sport, she was." For 30 years he had rented out window space on The Day, and usually quadrupled his sale of beer and short-order meals...
...Hitler-hater. But his outward manner suggests the average American idea of the typical Nazi. He fixes his orchestra with a thick-spectacled stare that would do credit to a cinema Prussian. Some conductors get their effects by kindness and psychological subtlety; some approach the technique of a lion tamer. George Szell is among the latter. For him the Met's lions jump through their hoops under dazzling control...