Word: mannerses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: Re: the campaign for the presidency. I might offer a suggestion to the confused American majority who wonders how to vote: Vote for the man who you think could marry a rich, talented and willful widow, teach her the humility of good manners, put her much abused estate in...
Perhaps it is churlish to make fun of Miss Alexandria. Certainly the author would never do so. He observes that the virtues of such women, products of pre-tax wealth and protracted social training, are unlikely to survive the times. Fondly, he seeks to preserve their manners and their memory...
In affairs of state, the Trudeau style is something else again. Last week he won high marks from Canadians for his handling of Canada's only international dispute: General de Gaulle's persistent encouragement of Quebec separatists. When De Gaulle at his press conference brusquely lumped Canada with...
As in such earlier novels as Square's Progress and Office Politics, Sheed constructs a bright, cutting prose from the dross of everyday slang. He wields that prose with a subtle ear for speech rhythms and a sardonic eye for the telltale gesture. In this new volume, he also...
THE VIOLENT PEACE, by Carl and Shelley Mydans. Two veteran combat correspondents combine memorable war pictures and eyewitness accounts of 44 TIME-LIFE correspondents to examine the changing face of war in the nuclear age. 1897 SEARS ROEBUCK CATALOGUE, introductions by S. J. Perelman and Richard Rovere. A dazzling trove...