Word: howver
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hers, howver, is not a political conservatism of B-1 bombers and trickle-down theories. More accurately, it is a social conservatism, calling for a moral trickling down to the socially brutish. In her emphasis on people's "moral style," Mrs. Trilling defends a moral basis for all manner of social interaction. She relates a parable of dining etiquette, of once mentioning table manners while eating as a guest in one of the Harvard Houses. "It was very sweet," she says, "because when I said this to a group of students, they all became very self-conscious...
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