Word: mannerses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Work for Others. One of Phenix's most promising approaches to "worth" is through esthetics, as applied to everything from art and science to manners, work and recreation. His students would be thoroughly trained in the esthetic meaning of integrity-the harmony of contrasting parts in one pleasing whole...
Hoxha's picture is plastered on just about every wall in the land. His profile adorns Albania's monetary unit, the lek, and at meetings of the Communist Central Committee (most of whom are related to each other and to the boss by blood or marriage) Hoxha speaks...
In his just-published book, Tiffany's Table Manners for Teen-Agers (94 pp.; Ives Washburn, Inc.; $3), Tiffany Board Chairman Walter Hoving offers comforting advice. "Be nonchalant," says he. If you choose the wrong fork or knife, don't fidget, keep eating. Sip soup from the side...
In another new book, The Intelligent Parents' Guide to Teen-Agers (228 pp.; Paul S. Eriksson, Inc.; $3.95), Author Thelma C. Purtell, a Manhattan-based housewife with a Midwestern upbringing, quotes an old hand on an old problem: "Our youth now loves luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for...
Guided Tour. As a weathercock of taste, Walpole is more gilded than dependable. It soon becomes clear that he cultivates lesser things at the expense of greater ones, that his feeling for Gothic is really a love of the exotic, that his sense of the visionary is in essence a...