Word: mannerses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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 reading at least once.
Last week, at 80, a sad-faced woman with a failing heart, she died in a Manhattan hospital. She had helped form the manners and mores of the rich, the talented and the glamorously beautiful-though she herself was poor, uneducated, and wore her homeliness like a badge.
At Princeton, she complained that "they showed bad manners-very bad manners-at Harvard." But Old Nassau was not much more polite. Some 250 pickets, including six Buddhist monks from a monastery in Freewood Acres, N.J., refugees from Tibet and Russia, turned up to razz her. Protested Mme. Nhu: "You...
Continuing her nation-wide tour, Mme. Nhu made her criticism of Harvard at a reception before her speech at Princeton University. "They showed bad manners--very bad manners--at Harvard," she said. "People in our country respect a lecturer. I don't mind what they do in the street--at...
To an age brought up to believe that sexual finesse is almost as important a social grace as, say, good table manners, it sometimes comes as a shock to be reminded that lust is one of the seven deadly sins. Moralists who insist on this fact are likely to be...