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...dollar coach and the burly athlete throwing into complete eclipse the lecture room, the instructor, and the students. Football is very well, in its place. But it is not, after all, the be-all and the end-all of college life. The camel should not be given the entire tent...
...Georgia in a bungalow on wheels drowsily draws on his outlandish costume-alpaca coat, shabby policeman's trousers and an opera hat- and hopes that the new day may bring him an audience for his weird sermon proving that Negroes are not human beings. The barker for a tent show called The She-Devil clears his throat...
...planet Mars and collecting ghost stories. Never a great scientist, he was still mumbling about the probable inhabitability of Mars while his colleagues were concerned with the atomic structures of stars not yet named; but he exploited with marvelous eloquence the romance of the stars. Under the big tent top of heaven he, a circus barker, shouted the seductions of Venus, the deformities of Mercury, the spots, habits, abilities of Uranus, Jupiter, Neptune. He was the jongleur of the Milky...
These things should be done in a tent with a sawdust trail down the centre aisle. A Bit o' Love was treated to the directive delicacy of Robert Milton. It had to be; under sawdust severity, it might have dropped apart. For this reason, its vigor seemed a simulation. Even excellent acting could not save...
...Nottingham, England (onetime abode of Robber Robin Hood), three race-track bookies, with bags, brass nameplates, betting tablets, visited a golf course, took up a stand at the starter's tent, made an offer: "Five to one on the field." They were ousted...