Word: etiquettee
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The husband comes home from work and yawns, "How was your day, dear?" Wife (pleasantly): "O.K. How was yours?" Husband: "Oh, you know, the usual." When disagreements loom, they take refuge in the newspaper, TV or "etiquette-upmanship," a self-righteous silent treatment rationalized by the thought that self-control...
In the same way, Susan Larson is something of a disappointment as Rose Maybud, a characteristically Gilbertain example of innocent rural lust. Her singing voice is pleasant enough, but she walks through her lines, apparently baffled by the splendid prop she carries, a book of etiquette. Of all the cast...
Though Ahlers doubtless talked too much, average Germans and the German press could hardly be blamed for displaying a bit of self-satisfied pride in the strength of their currency. But as soon as the leaders of Bonn's Grand Coalition sensed how poorly the German gloating was being...
I agree with Andrew Jamison's remarks on etiquette in Saturday's Crimson: hissing is bad manners; though if Herr Wessel is a member of the German SDS, he cannot be much concerned with manners or the "liberalistic" rules of fair debate.
Perhaps the most absurd criticism comes from a Boston psychiatry professor, Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, who with utter seriousness takes Styron to task for referring to Nat Turner by his first name. "Is this familiarity by the author part of intuitive white condescension and adherence to Southern racial etiquette? Is...