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...Keillor's jokes are rural; he raises an eyebrow ever so slightly at the Midwesternizing of the counterculture in his parody of a shopping-guide ad for "St. Paul's Episcopal Drop-In Hair Center (in the rectory basement)" where the Rev. Ray and the Rev. Don, trained barbers, "offer warm, supportive pre-and post-trim counseling . . . and if you just want to come in and talk about haircuts, well, that's cool too." Another ad, inserted by a people's used-furniture collective, condemns alienating queen-size beds, recommending instead "our Warm Valley Bed . .. narrow...
...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...
...work or play, everybody emits wordless signals of infinite variety. Overt, like a warm smile. Spontaneous, like a raised eyebrow. Involuntary, like leaning away from a salesperson to resist a deal. Says Julius Fast in Body Language: "We rub our noses for puzzlement. We clasp our arms to isolate ourselves or to protect ourselves. We shrug our shoulders for indifference." Baseball pitchers often dust back a batter with a close ball that is not intended to hit but only to signal a warning claim of dominance. The twitchings of young children too long in adult company are merely involuntary signals...
...week-to-week price fluctuations for stocks that Harvard owns translate into very large gains and losses--often hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars. But for the people who manage Harvard's $1.7-billion endowment, such ups and downs elicit only the slightest arch of an eyebrow during a perusal of the Sunday stock tables. What matters to them is the long...
...Draper action, which John insists was not a deliberate attempt to get arrested, continues a pattern of activism he began in seventh grade with his eyebrow-raising nomination to the environmental board in his home town of Vernon, Connecticut. Since coming to Harvard, he has coordinated, among other programs, the Phillips Brooks House prisons committee and the Catholic Student Center social action committee, practiced civil disobedience at nuclear plant sites and abortion clinics, and lived with his door open to anyone without a home...