Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...witty columnist sees a new concern with civility...
...evidence takes many forms. Clothing is becoming a bit more formal, more traditional, more conventional. Young men are getting their hair cut short. "One minute I was wearing Betsey Johnson sex clothes, the next I only had eyes for a nice Burberry," wrote Style Columnist Cynthia Heimel in Manhattan's Village Voice this month. "And gray flannel pleated trousers. Harris-tweed jackets. Simple shirtwaists in unsullied cotton . . . You know what this means, don't you? It means that people are going to be voting for Ronald Reagan again...
Others read the signals in other ways. "Society today is sitting next to your hairdresser at dinner," according to Liz Smith, gossip columnist for the New York Daily News. She was inspired to that judgment by a White House Rose Garden party attended by, among others, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, a Secretary of State and a Supreme Court Justice, and Mrs. Reagan's New York hairdresser, Monsieur Marc (who later quoted the Liz Smith line on the jacket of his memoirs, Nouveau Is Better Than No Riche...
...evidence of a revived interest in manners and elegance, a number of people would argue the exact opposite, that manners continue to get worse and are nearing the point of invisibility. "Manners have taken a beating these last 25 years," says Eppie Lederer, a.k.a. Ann Landers, the advice columnist. "It isn't just that men aren't opening car doors for women or offering them seats on subways or buses. It goes deeper than that. The high crime rate is one thing that discourages openness and courtesy to strangers. The chances are that a man who takes...
...style between the two editors could hardly be more acute. Winship is elfin, effervescent, demonstrative and unassumingly rumpled. He tells stories of his financially modest youth and calls himself a "swamp Yankee." Janeway is shy, sardonic, reserved and elegant. He has the seigneurial manner befitting a son of Economics Columnist Eliot Janeway and Author Elizabeth Janeway (Powers of the Weak). Perhaps the only obvious characteristic the men share is that like dozens of their staffers they are graduates of Harvard, yet they agree on the problems the paper must correct...