Activity

Also “appearance,” as in Barnum’s nostrum: “Put on the appearance of business, and generally the reality will follow.”

The earliest modern “circi” were glorified riding demonstrations, single-ring answers to that most ancient of questions: What do you do with your soldiers in peacetime? In 1768, on the eve of what the British call the American War of Independence, Philip Astley and his fellow cavalrymen of the Fift…

From its very inception, which was coeval with this country’s inception, the American circus has been the imaginative grounds of American politics