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...prison term), into an idealistic do-gooder. It takes nearly two hours for this first transformation to occur, but the second is much more rapid. McDowell dishes soup to derelicts, who then attack him. He becomes disillusioned. He wanders through London until he sees a man walking around Picadilly Circus wearing a sandwich board which announces open casting for a new film. He goes to the casting room, is picked out of the crowd of would-be stars by director Lindsay Anderson (playing himself), who orders him to smile. The poor boy has been so disheartened that he cannot; Anderson...
Guterman's main attempt so far has been to create a circus atmosphere. At lunch in Horn & Hardart's branch at Eighth Avenue and 58th Street in Manhattan, customers stand three deep to eat at a new "Burger in the Park" counter, complete with plastic-flower-lined paths, AstroTurf and cut-out clouds. At other outlets, rock concerts draw young late-night customers despite fear of muggings. A double-decker Horn & Hardart bus tours Manhattan free, stopping at such favorite tourist spots as the U.N. and the Empire State Building-as well as at 17 Horn & Hardarts. Meanwhile...
That system is described in the current Journal of Popular Culture, an issue devoted chiefly to U.S. circuses, carnivals and fairs, and intended "to introduce the carnival to the social scientist." Three of the contributors have ties to the carnival or circus worlds: Sociologist Marcello Truzzi of New College in Sarasota, Fla., whose father was the juggler Massimiliano Truzzi; Sociologist Patrick Easto of Eastern Michigan University, whose mother was a carnival stripper; and Social Psychologist Theodore Dembroski of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, who was born into a carnival family and takes a job as a carnival worker, or "carnie...
There are many such barriers be tween the 85 million Americans who visit carnivals every year and the thousands of men and women who work in them. One is the carnie's feeling that society looks down upon him; even circus workers feel superior, Truzzi says, because the circus is really an extension of the theater, while carnivals spring from street fairs and gambling...
...nice of you to come," the midget said to the cardinal. Terence Cardinal Cooke, the only American member of a commission created by Pope Paul VI for "people on the move," was celebrating his first Mass for the Ringling Bros, and Barnum and Bailey circus in Madison Square Garden. "How blessed you are," Cooke said to the assembled animal trainers, jugglers, clowns and workmen, "to spend your lives dedicated to a profession that makes people smile...