Word: mannerses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cards to Chicken. Today, as Mrs. Post prophesied, the mix-up is on in high gear. There is still a society where the placement of finger bowls is of some concern, but the more people who can afford-or choose to afford-finger bowls, the less important an issue their...
I have apologized to Father McCarthy, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston College for the behavior of our Harvard audience last night in booing during the playing of the B.C. alma mater at the hockey game. I regret very much that an elementary discourse on good...
Roosevelt's vendetta, however, differed in two respects from Kennedy's. First, F.D.R. only played around with a few French generals and admirals and with the American press. Second, at the time, Roosevelt could be excused for believing that France had ceased to exist. Kennedy, in the face of a...
Unfortunately, however, the "relevance of Jane Austen" is not at all clear. It is only mentioned once, in the next to last paragraph. Kampf claims that the solution to the dilemma of the Jewish writer, who either had to assimilate and lose his Jewishness, or get stuck in the dead...
Katherine, the novel's shy and lonely heroine, leaves her unnamed European country one summer to visit a family in England. She falls in love with the son, Robin, but is put off by his flawless British manners, his utter imperturbability, "this sandpapering of every word and gesture until...