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Republican congressional candidates have been set adrift with nothing they can latch onto except a controversial party platform that serves only to alienate much of the electorate. That document has been abandoned by practically everyone, but there really isn't anything, except for the promise of on tax increases, to take its place. And the tax issue, with the looming deficit, isn't going to carry an entire party...
...what good manners are. Some women are really offended if you offer them seats or hold their coats." The modern dilemma, according to Friedrich: "If you hold the door for someone, are you being polite, or are you demonstrating that you have better manners than they do, which isn't politeness...
...revived interest in manners and elegance, a number of people would argue the exact opposite, that manners continue to get worse and are nearing the point of invisibility. "Manners have taken a beating these last 25 years," says Eppie Lederer, a.k.a. Ann Landers, the advice columnist. "It isn't just that men aren't opening car doors for women or offering them seats on subways or buses. It goes deeper than that. The high crime rate is one thing that discourages openness and courtesy to strangers. The chances are that a man who takes an old lady...
...think people have manners," she says. "I don't think people teach their children manners. I think boorishness is the order of the day. There has been a return to convention, but that's all nostalgia. It's just fear, and fear isn't the same thing as manners...
...something they've gotten from old movies, from some hopeful rumor of a more distinguished period in which to live," says Hamilton. "They're just dressing up. They all love suspenders, art deco, fragments of an earlier grandeur, and that's the new conservatism. Reagan isn't the cause but just another symptom of the urge to find some order...