Word: correct
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While it is still impossible to determine which, if either, is correct, Hartman says that recent data shows that young stars spin slowly. Moreover, this suggests that the disk theory is incorrect, as it says that stars should be rapidly rotating when formed...
...topped. Washington Correspondent Carolyn Lesh, one member of the TIME team that reported this week's cover story on the revival of interest in proper behavior, accompanied Judith Martin on a promotion tour for her new book, Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children. "She has excruciatingly correct manners," says Lesh, "but once, when we were in a store and a clerk mumbled, Martin responded with a 'What?' Later I asked 'Shouldn't you have said, Pardon me?' " No way, said Martin. "What" was correct. "To pardon" is to excuse an offense...
...what are the wedding invitations supposed to say? Does a first husband get invited if the children want him there? What does the bride wear if she is pregnant? Questions that once seemed to need no "correct" answers now support a whole manners-teaching industry. The 1,018-page 1984 edition of Emily Post's classic Etiquette, updated by her granddaughter-in-law Elizabeth Post, contains a special section on pregnant brides ("It should be remembered that this is a happy occasion . . ."). More explicit among the recent manuals are SexEtiquette, by Marilyn Hamel ("Should...
...biochemical genetics at the National Institutes of Health, claims that his own manners have required no polishing during their 25-year marriage because he was "already perfect when we met, and so was she." If anyone has the temerity to address him as Mr. Manners, says Dr. Martin, "I correct them immediately. I tell them it's Lord Manners, not Mr. Manners." (The name Miss Manners derives from a figure in Victorian English folklore who was originally called Lady Manners. She was conjured up so that when children tried to gobble all the food on the table, they could...
...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...