Word: circusing
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...have only to catch the despair of Yeats's poem The Circus Animals' Desertion. on the awful burden and awful chance of self-delusion in caring for men's words...
SEALE: You don't fight racism with racism. The best way to fight racism is with solidarity. This takes many years. Anything that is good for the ruling class circus has got to be bad for us. It always has been. For 400 years. When you talk of black separation it is not a point of whether we dig black separation. The fact of the matter is that now we are already separated. So what we come up with is we're not concerned with abstract, false notions of integration. Nor are we concerned with abstract, false notions of separation...
...started a clown college to train replacements for Ringling's creaky old comic crew (average age: 66). And he changed what he calls "the Las Vegas look" of the circus-a polite way of saying that he hired showgirls who did not look quite so shopworn...
...circus was worth $8,000,000, and Feld bought it, with financing from his brother Israel and Houston Astrodome Builder Roy Hofheinz. The deal, in a publicity stunt worthy of Barnum, was ceremoniously sealed in the center of the Roman Colosseum...
Today, as president and producer of the circus, Feld keeps on talent hunting despite cataracts that force him to wear glasses as thick as Coke-bottle bottoms; an aide usually walks with him lest he trip over rigging hidden in the circus sawdust. Feld's major concerns today include quickening the pace of his Red and Blue shows; both are already trimmed to about two hours and 55 minutes. He is also moving into the merchandising of some 200 Ringling Bros.-labeled products from bed sheets to vitamins-an operation that will add at least...