Word: livings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world's spryest septuagenarians, she had long kept a schedule that would have left most younger people exhausted. But in recent years Mead, who had survived malaria, three marriages, several miscarriages and years of native foods, found her health failing. "I know I can't live forever," she often said. "I'm just not ready...
...fact that you live in a house with two servants, or in an apartment with only one, need not imply that your house lacks charm or even distinction, or that it is not completely the home of a lady or gentleman...
Independence, Tish believes, has been the single most important factor in changing American manners in the past decade. "Women have discovered that they can live alone without crumbling," she says. "More men are living alone and not crumbling. A woman can entertain marvelously and tend the bar and make just as good drinks as when she had a husband making the drinks. And a man can get out in the kitchen and do a gourmet dinner that will impress anybody...
...Chicago, Tish married Robert Hollensteiner, a real estate executive who, among other things, has the advantage of being nearly four inches taller than Tish. They live with their son Malcolm, 11, in a twelve-room cooperative apartment on Fifth Avenue overlooking Central Park. Daughter Clare is away at the boarding school Tish attended, Miss Porter...
...schedule, Baldrige turns down more social invitations than she accepts. Whenever possible she leaves a party at 11-"I have to get my sleep. It's the only way I can keep going." When Tish entertains, it is usually for Saturday or Sunday lunch. The Hollensteiners have a live-in housekeeper, but Tish does practically all the cooking herself...