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In a somewhat more egalitarian age, today's self-styled arbiters of elegance do their best to disavow the slightly embarrassing equation of good manners and money. While Emily Post's original guide was full of such now esoteric information as what color livery the footmen should wear...
"Writers may understand writing in a less esoteric way than academics." said Pelicia Lamport, who writes the honorous "Muse of the Week in Review" column about current events for the Boston Sunday Globe. As a result, a writer is often more empathetic to students with writing problems than a professor...
Yet despite a pep talk from Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, who pledged "continued tax incentives" in a second Reagan term, and continued deregulation to "keep Government off the backs of business," members agreed that the business horizon is not entirely cloudless. The council's economic report warns that the...
Reporters were everywhere. The French left-wing journal Libération was covering part of the Olympics from a gay bar. The nonprint reporting was equally assertive. To slake its countrymen's curiosity about Los Angeles and life in the fast lane, British television showed naked ladies sitting in...
By and large, Sears targets its products for Middle America. Nowhere on any Sears shelf are there to be found such items of acknowledged excellence, but high price, as Dunhill cigarette lighters, Rolex watches or Leica cameras. Sears does not try to lead the customer to new and esoteric, and...