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...magazines provide a possible answer: puns involving the words ball or balls. THE TRUTH ABOUT YOUR BALLS promises a piece on golf in GQ. DON'T DROP THE BALL says the headline to an article in Men's Health urging early detection of testicular cancer. Maxim, a rude import from Britain that has just published its premiere issue in America, features a photograph of author Tom Clancy standing behind a pool table. The caption? "He's got balls...
...governorship of American Samoa; to the Postmaster General, protesting the introduction of Zip Codes. "If the sorrow of later Thompson is that more and more of his pieces read like celebrity walkabouts at 4 a.m.," Iyer notes, "the pleasure of these letters is that they have all the rude vitality of the man who was not yet a myth...
...asserts that the propensity to confront authority and orthodoxy was one of the hallmarks of a great intellect. He writes: "I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions... I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways." Perhaps it is no surprise that Emerson was sometimes considered a heretic during his academic career at Harvard...
Using a telephone to increase the range in which one can be rude isn't new either. Think what the telephone has already done for the invasion of peace and privacy. For years it has tyrannized people's lives with the premise that its jangling summons requires them to drop whatever they are doing and attend to it immediately. And they do. Lovers leave sweethearts with their outstretched arms and business people leave customers with their outstretched wallets...
...heard the standard excuses for the rude use of cell phones: attending to business and being available for personal emergencies. But these have been so overused and misused as to be hardly acceptable anyway. People who are on call for work or personal crises probably shouldn't be out socializing or entertaining themselves, and they certainly shouldn't be disrupting these activities for the less burdened...