Word: abraham
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...raised an eyebrow back in 1838, when Springfield, Ill., Lawyer Abraham Lincoln's name appeared in a newspaper ad. By the early 1900s, however, most states had outlawed attorney advertising because it was considered unnecessary and, worse, unseemly. Then, in 1976, two young Phoenix lawyers took out a one column ad offering "legal services at very reasonable fees" and listed six examples. The pair were censured by the Arizona Supreme Court. A year later they won vindication: a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the First Amendment bars prohibition of lawyer advertising, unless, for example, it is "false, deceptive...
...Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes (1975), which roamed freely and often hilariously over centuries' worth of British biography and gossip. Historian Paul F. Boiler Jr. had to confine himself to the 39 Americans who, for better or worse, served among the acknowledged legislators of the world. Abraham Lincoln is here, but so, unavoidably, are James K. Polk, Martin Van Buren and Millard Fillmore...
DIED. Paul Green, 87, dramatist and screenwriter whose Broadway successes include the 1926 Pulitzer-prizewinning In Abraham's Bosom and the 1936 antiwar play Johnny Johnson, and who in 1937 wrote the historical spectacle The Lost Colony, the first of his 15 outdoor "symphonic dramas" that are staged across the country, mostly for summer tourists; in Chapel Hill...
...formulation of Psychologist Abraham Maslow, work functions in a hierarchy of needs: first, work provides food and shelter, basic human maintenance. After that, it can address the need for security and then for friendship and "belongingness." Next, the demands of the ego arise, the need for aspect. Finally, men and women assert a larger desire for "self-actualization." That seems a harmless and even worthy enterprise but sometimes degenerates into self-infatuation, a vaporously selfish discontent that dead-ends in isolation, the empty "ace that gazes back from the mirror...
...time. A decade before Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier, radios in the inner city blared his fights on hot summer nights, and street dances followed his victories. He toured the world, met F.D.R., and New York Mayor James Walker floridly proclaimed, "You laid a rose on Abraham Lincoln's grave." Louis was uncomfortable in the role of symbol. "Jesus Christ, am I all that?" he asked. He was, and could reflect in 1978, "I've been in a whole lot of fights inside the ring and outside. I like to think I won most...