Word: doored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the one woman, in the fragility of her gender, may exit first, followed by eight men and their dense exhalation of martini fumes. b) Since the sex of the passengers is irrelevant here, everyone leaves the elevator in the most efficient and logical order, the men nearest the door departing first. As some people of both sexes are still uncomfortable with such uncourtly procedures, a man may put them at their ease by making a suggestive remark about the woman 's figure. c) All passengers tumble out at once, landing in a heap before the eighth-floor receptionist...
...seemed a sort of humiliating impulse, uncontrollable, incontinent. A man seated on the downtown bus might endure agonies of self-examination before offering his seat to a woman. The male had to learn to size up the female by age, education and possible ferocity of feminism before opening a door for her: Would the courtesy offend her? It made for ambiguity: If a man studiously refuses to open the door for a woman, is he sexually liberated? Or just an ill-bred slob...
...equal world," Baldrige believes, the general operating principles are efficiency, kindness and elementary good sense. "Whoever happens to be in the lead opens the door and holds it for the other," she writes. "Whoever first sees the taxi hails it. People emerge from an elevator in a logical procession, the front people off first, the people in the back off last. Each of us puts on his or her own coat; however, anyone who sees someone else struggling to get into a coat lends a helping hand ... A person picks up a check in the coffee shop or a restaurant...
Other regional differences in manners are still evident. Sections of the South remain citadels of high courtliness.* But the old standards are besieged. A team of animal behaviorists could keep themselves fascinated for months merely observing the door-opening customs of the sexes in the South. Chris Kirby, a courthouse librarian in Orlando, hauls weighty law books all day long; not once during working hours, she complains, has a man ever opened a door for her, much less offered to cart the books. "But let me go out at night with nothing heavier than an evening bag," she goes...
...daughter was finally married because she had been telling her friends for a year that her daughter was married to the man she was living with. A woman from Dallas took her PossLQ home for the weekend recently to meet her parents. Her mother usually came to the door to meet her, but not this time. Her father squared himself in the front hall like an immense stack of Gideon Bibles and announced: "That's your room there. That's your room there." Then the mother came on like a p.a. system: "NO HANKY-PANKY IN THIS HOUSE...