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...ways. Once when Elvis appeared at Dallas' Cotton Bowl, Hollywood friends found Manager Parker near the main gate, selling Presley-autographed photos. His explanation: "Don't you ever get so big you won't sell pictures." He has sold other things, too, at Presley performances. Bucking custom, he makes newsmen pay for their own tickets, seldom passes out freebees even to close business associates, has been known to peddle war-surplus binoculars (at $2 a pair) to buddies who ended up in poor locations...
...Goat? To the council's surprise, the largely rural delegates voted unanimously to retain the custom of bride price. Observed one woman: "A bride price gives a girl a sense of her worth." Others feared that without paying a bride price, a man might say to his wife, "I got you for nothing, so you must be worth nothing." Besides, said another woman, "a bride's family can always remind themselves of their lost daughter by looking at the cows they got in exchange...
...church called "his bodily presence . . . weak, his speech contemptible," and Paul himself acknowledges that he is "rude in speech, yet not in knowledge." Paul's letters give the best evidence of how he must have preached (the direct quotes attributed to him in Acts were, according to the custom of the day, largely the composition of the author). Paul's style is so completely individual that scholars have no difficulty in identifying the letters bearing his name but not written by him.The words come in a rush, broken by frequent parenthetical asides, but though he was not trying...
...best humor at breakfast, and we wanted to stay married." For years, he usually prowled the farm before breakfast. But he gave up the custom when a disorder of his leg muscles forced him to walk with a cane. Now he usually does some paperwork in the library before being chauffeured to work in his 1958 grey Oldsmobile station wagon. The watchful eyes of his father and uncle stare down at him from the walls of his 19th-floor office...
Along with new hustle, a new diversity has entered Australian life. Staid Melbourne still languishes under the blue laws that turn it into "a Sunday necropolis," and in most of Australia strict drinking hours still produce a custom known as "the 6 o'clock swill"-which contributes mightily to an annual beer consumption of 23 gallons per man, woman and child. But it is now possible, in the big cities, to find a gas station open before 9 a.m. and a stationery store after 5 p.m. In Sydney or Melbourne, a man who doesn't feel like Australia...