Word: courteousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talkers was Evan Connell, whose earlier hits, Mrs. Bridge (Viking; 1959) and Mr. Bridge (Knopf; 1969), had been published by Manhattan-based companies. He found North Point Press "invariably courteous," and when they offered him attractive royalties and a substantial advance, he signed on. Every aspect of production was negotiated, a sharp variance from the dictatorial New York style. "Evan didn't want photographs in the book," Turnbull remembers. "We felt they might make it more salable to history buffs. Evan won." But the author conceded another point: he provided a detailed index...
With his face visibly tightened and grim, he yelled into the SDS member's microphone. "I spent four of the happiest years at the Berkeley campus doing some of the same things you're doing here." But there was one important difference. "I was tougher and more courteous...
Makarov was a surly, pompous, sarcastic contrast to Gromyko's cool but generally courteous personality. Gromyko kept him as the perfect watchdog. He scared off intruders. He sheltered his master from unnecessary contacts with lesser humans. Gromyko is an efficient machine, constructed to perform and to endure, and almost completely devoid of human warmth. He can joke and he can rage, but underlying any such expression is a cold discipline that makes him formidable as a superior or as an adversary...
...perilous, of course, for anyone less sagacious than Alexis de Tocqueville to make generalizations about American manners. Men and women often have wildly different ideas about what is courteous behavior; so do the young and the old, whites and blacks, smokers and nonsmokers. Regional differences are strong, and so are those between large cities and smaller ones. Despite a general decline in courtesy in recent decades, many Southerners pride themselves on having retained quite formal manners; New Yorkers, by contrast, take a perverse pride in their fellow citizens' rudeness...
Tall, soft-spoken and described by friends as courteous and modest, Stone collects books and has more than 10,000 volumes. But his deepest interest remains organizing numbers. Says Terence Barker, Stone's successor as head of the Cambridge Growth Project, which has developed a model of the British economy: "He is passionately enthusiastic about economic statistics. All his professional life has been devoted to the measurement of income and wealth, and he is very keen on getting it systematized." Adds George Jaszi, director of the U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis: "There is a tremendous...