Word: columning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...television maps it showed up as a tide of blue (or red, depending on the network) rolling inexorably south to north, east to west, and as a vaulting column of electoral votes for Reagan towering over a nearly invisible stack for Democratic Challenger Walter Mondale. Partisans on both sides were awestruck. "Embarrassing, just embarrassing," muttered Mondale's campaign manager, Robert Beckel. Democrat Nancy Dick, conceding defeat in her bid for a Senate seat from Colorado, lamented, "My loss is part of a national disaster that our party is suffering." In the Reagan camp, Pollster Richard Wirthlin crowed early...
...most informed and best-educated and therefore the wisest electorate in the world. This year's affection for Reagan, however, brought bitter second thoughts among the liberal intelligentsia, best summed up by the Washington Post's Haynes Johnson, normally an evenhanded fellow. He suggested in a column that Reagan's overwhelming support proved Abraham Lincoln wrong, that in this age of packaged candidates it was possible to fool all of the people all the time, or at least enough of the time to put a mountebank like Reagan in the White House...
...size and cost of the instrument are also formidable obstacles. Benet has three harps: she keeps her $17,000 model with its gold-plated column at home in San Francisco; the second, worth $13,000, she brings to school; and the third, a much, much smaller replica, dangles from a gold chain around her neck...
...Embassy Row cocktail parties as a society reporter for the Washington Post. (Her most memorable distinction was being officially banned from Tricia Nixon's wedding.) While acting as a features reporter and a drama critic, she asked her editor one day in 1978 if she could try a column on etiquette; she got a very skeptical go-ahead. "Editors all thought etiquette was dead," says Martin. "Even the word was a joke. I thought I was just writing for a bunch of old cranks like myself, but then I started getting floods of mail from young people. These were...
...works alone in an antique-filled ground-floor office in a town house a ten-minute bus ride from her home. The bookshelves contain a large collection of etiquette books, from The Book of the Courtier to Victorian Vista. Martin devotes one day a week to writing her column on an IBM word processor. Some of her mail, which may be useful later (she has to work two months in advance), gets saved in wooden trays with such labels as Weddings, Business or Diverse Civilities; other letters receive a standard answer in engraved script on cream paper ("Miss Manners regrets...