Word: mannerses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THE AGE OF NAPOLEON by J. Christopher Herold. 420 pages. American Heritage. $18.95. Volumes as heavily freighted with plates, maps and other cargo as this one have a way of scanting facts for four-color fanfares. This is a welcome exception. The text is both sound and readable, and the...
Home, James. Though both would no doubt be shocked at the comparison, O'Hara's best later stories offer a world of manners and mores that in its self-contained coherence suggests the world of Henry James. O'Hara has an idiomatic acquaintance with far more people...
THE LETTERS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, edited by Andrew Turnbull. "Read this letter twice!" Fitzgerald once wrote to his daughter in the course of advising her about love, money and manners. Most of these letters to her and to his friends are worth at least one reading.
British businessmen are even shaking off many of their traditional notions about British manners, measures and money. Export prices are not so often quoted only in sterling these days, and delivery dates are no longer taken so lightly. By learning to cut men's suits to Continental tastes, the...
At 43, George is a shambling compendium of symbolic British upper-class weaknesses-most of them unwittingly acquired, along with his fringe status as a gentleman, to appease the memory of his socially insecure, non-U mother. He has never held a real job. He is sterile. For years he...