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...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...
American business leaders have been urged to toughen up, to partake of power breakfasts, to dress only for success. Now along comes Letitia Baldrige's Complete Guide to Executive Manners (Rawson Associates; $22.95) telling them to be polite. Good manners constitute good business, Baldrige argues. Her model executive is gracious and considerate. When he fires a subordinate, he breaks the news compassionately; when he loses a job, he leaves the firm quickly and quietly. He exhibits an old-fashioned virtue: good manners...
...route to an interview with Letitia Baldrige, etiquette author and cover subject of TIME's last major look at manners in 1978, New York Correspondent Adam Zagorin was delayed by a traffic jam. "I ran to a pay phone to explain. Baldrige replied, 'I understand perfectly. I'll use the extra time to gather more material.' With perfect politeness, she had accepted my apology and put me at my ease." Reporter-Researcher Val Castronovo interviewed several observers of modern manners, including New Yorker Cartoonist William Hamilton and Social Critic Fran Lebowitz. She found them grappling with...
...back in the '60s and '70s are remarrying in tuxedos and long white dresses in the '80s." Says Paul Lichtner, manager of the Arthur Murray dance studio in Boston: "We have a two-week waiting list for wedding couples who want to learn how to waltz." Letitia Baldrige, author of the revised and expanded Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette, concludes that "the flower generation tore tradition to shreds, but in the 1980s some magic sewing machine has stitched it all up again...
...Letitia Abbott-Steele Shreveport...