Word: mannerses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ESAU AND JACOB, by Machado de Assis. Machado is the Proust of fin de siècle Rio de Janeiro. His chronicle of old manners and old morals being swept away by new money has the fascination of a gossip column and the authenticity of a diary preserved in lavender...
In today's new Nigeria, businessmen are more likely to succeed by producing new goods or services. Sir Mobolaji Bank-Anthony, 59, known as "The Black Englishman" for his impeccable manners and imperturbable air, began by importing cuckoo clocks and marble statues. He now controls or owns part of...
In one of Gillette's current TV commercials, a man's hand appears, sets down a dispenser of Gillette razor blades and-of all things-three clearly labeled dispensers of rival Wilkinson, Schick and Personna blades. The hand naturally picks up the package of Gillette after brushing the...
High points go to readers of biography, particularly if the book is longwinded and the subject long dead. Top scorer at many dinner tables this fall will be the man who has read L. Pearce Williams' Michael Faraday (531 pages) and can laconically explain how the 19th century English...
Making a dryly witty press-conference debut at Berkeley, Heyns indicated that he has no use for student demonstrations-but does have quiet sympathy for student problems. He called the riots "frankly, a very uncongenial way for a university to conduct itself," adding: "The academic man moves more quietly, motivated...