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...criticism, the eyes come first; all the cultural infrastructuring that places an object within its historical context can come later. Fortunately for Henry Kraus, 61, a Knoxville, Tenn., barber's son who studied mathematics in college and made a career out of medical journalism, he first fell in love with medieval cathedrals by feasting his eyes on them while a student at the Sorbonne. Before he ever cracked a book about it, Gothic art had become a secret passion. Now, with time to pursue it, he has written a revolutionary study, rediscovering scores of facts about medieval iconography...
...second day in jail, King fell ill with a virus, and was later transferred to a Birmingham jail equipped with better facilities. After four days, King was freed. "We don't want to work hardship on anybody," said Circuit Judge William C. Barber. "He's served enough time...
...hair of the male human animal grows more slowly than crab grass-about ½ in. to 1 in. a month. But it never stops growing this side of the grave. Were it not for the tyranny of fashion, which insistently summons men to the barber, they might all conform to the Book of Leviticus, which commands that "Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard." In these shaggy times, which can produce a Van Cliburn, an Allan Ginsberg and a Joe Namath, not to mention the Beatles, the Monkees...
...once a neat trim but who lately resembles a sheep dog-or maybe a sheep. Presumably long hair is now a political asset, although Washington's most notorious tousle, Everett Dirksen, declines comment as "below the pale." Dirksen is at least known to have visited his barber before the 1952 Republican Convention, at which he appeared in a hairdo that would have thawed a drill sergeant's heart...
...barber is changing to accommodate the trend. Until 1957 his professional bible was called the Barber's Journal. But that year its name was changed to the Barber's Journal & Men's Hairstylist, and seven years later the name changed again. It is now the Men's Hairstylist & Barber's Journal-a title eloquently testifying to the ascendancy of a less ruthless tonsorial breed...