Word: mannerses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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For the past ten months, 15 women-British, Canadian, American, Kenyan-have been running a school at the Y to teach Kenyan women the elaborate manners of diplomacy. Some women who attend are well versed in Western ways, but many arrive with no more social accomplishments than scratching and giggling...
Casey challenged the assumption that primary grades are the best time and place to carry out the chief mission of Catholic schools, "preservation of the faith." While "neatness, sanitation, table manners and so on can be ingrained in these early years, it is not evident that doctrine and abstract ideas...
Nothing Top-Loftical. Whitman was a great, .puffing manifesto writer, a dogmatist of the "I." In view of this, it is odd that in the most personal of all art forms, the private letter, Whitman should be rather closemouthed. He disdained "top-loftical" correspondence and "fancy words," so that there...
Thus, what might otherwise have been a lightheaded comedy of manners has undertones of incest and overtones of Andy Hardy. Still, the Bay Area scenery is silken, the sets and costumes effulgent; and at long last, a Hollywood production designer has learned something about the true-life tastes of the...
When Hammarskjold called Dayal back to U.N. Manhattan headquarters for "consultation" in March, nearly everybody sighed with relief. U.N. relations with the Congolese improved spectacularly, and the U.S. gently urged Hammarskjold to keep Dayal in Manhattan indefinitely. Finally, last week, controversial Rajeshwar Dayal announced his resignation. As soon as he...