Word: letitia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...export: Les Crados (The Dirty Ones), the Gallic edition of those Stateside sensations, the Garbage Pail Kids. A gruesome gallery of children's bubble-gum cards, Les Crados include such characters as Mathieu Degueu (Matthew Nosepicker), Herve W.C. (Toilet-Face Herve) and Laetitia Pus-de- Bras (Stinky-Pit Letitia...
...Author Letitia Baldrige, an expert on corporate etiquette, told the audience that ethics begin in the home. Baldrige told parents, "It is your example that will make your children be ethical or not...Monkey see, monkey do, as far as children...
Writer of Letitia Baldrige's Complete Guide to Executive Manners, she said that former President John F. Kennedy '40 taught her a lesson in government etiquette. When she brought a gift from a foreign official of a vicuna coat to Kennedy, the president insisted that she return the coat immediately, Baldrige said...
...phrased, the future course of reform remains very much what authorities want to make it. At week's end Premier Zbigniew Messner announced that the price hikes, originally scheduled for 1988, would be phased in over the next three years. "The government is going ahead with economic reforms," said Letitia Rydjeski, a Vienna-based Poland analyst. "But it will be a tightrope act of introducing increases as high as possible without driving people out on the streets to react." Perhaps. But as last week's vote demonstrated, the streets may no longer be the only place where Poles can register...
...Marriage is a fascinating tradition, and it's the only one left that matters," muses Letitia Baldrige, author of several books on etiquette. "A wedding is a beautiful spectator sport. It pleases everybody immensely. And the presents do flow in." She thinks the resurgence of traditional weddings is "a rebellion against rebellion," a reaction to the free-form tribal rites of the Love and Me decades. "There's a hunger for a little bit of formality," observes Judith Martin, who as Miss Manners writes books of spiky social advice. "It's very natural to enjoy tradition, and it was phony...