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...analyzing health policy issues and the moral desirability of such technical advances as the mechanical heart. From a base in Los Angeles, Fa ther Nick Weber, 33, and two companions carom round the country in a battered station wagon giving performances of the Royal Liechtenstein One-Quarter-Ring Sidewalk Circus, an amiable blend of circus acts and low-key morality plays. Weber and company live a frugal, catch-as-catch-can existence, begging meals and a place to sleep wherever they stop. A Rochester, N.Y., Jesuit high school teacher, Father William S. O'Malley, is in a different kind...
...tricks the devil, cures a princess, and marries her, but the devil warns him not to try to go back to his native village. He tries anyway. The return of music to the people doesn't stop at the plot's source, however. You can hear it in the circus tunes and old-country fiddle solos that keep seeping into the score, or in Stravinsky's indifference -- though I suppose the score is pretty enough -- to what is merely "pretty," ("beauty does not consist in letting the ears lie back," Charles Ives said). He insists instead on treating the solo...
Gaddafi's nationalism and puritanism color all aspects of life. Foreigners arriving in Libya are sometimes refused entry because their passports have not been translated into Arabic. Immigration men once turned back an entire Italian circus, complete with animals, for this reason. A non-smoker and nondrinker in the strictest Moslem manner, Gaddafi closed all nightclubs, bars and casinos. Last fall he restored the practice of amputations for thievery, in accordance with Koranic law-loss of the right hand for mere theft and the left foot as well for armed robbery...
...interview, Cuba's Guillermo Cabrera Infante manages to set up a showy verbal circus, as full of puns, mockery and acerb wit as his novel Three Trapped Tigers, which was published in the U.S. last year. He wrote the book in the early 1960s, while employed as a magazine editor and cultural attaché producing revolutionary rhetoric for Fidel Castro, whom he detests-"a gangster who has become a policeman." The only things that are run well in Cuba, Cabrera Infante says, are "the three Ps-police, propaganda and paranoia as a system of government." Not surprisingly...
...time when the masculine hero is joining other endangered species, Hoagland looks to the circus, "the last place left where somebody can teeter on the brink of death and the crowd won't yell 'Jump!'" He finds his hero in Gunther Gebel-Williams, an animal trainer with an instinctive ability to orchestrate big cats into tawny fugues. To Hoagland, Gebel-Williams seems "to live in a state of direct gaiety." Unlike Clyde Beatty, for example, he does not conquer his animals crudely but controls them with a lover's touch...