Word: mannerses
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Q. Do people respond when you appeal to them on the basis of atmosphere, good manners, good taste?
When the revolution erupted in 1917, Nicholas reacted with bizarre passivity. He abdicated and went quietly into exile in Tobolsk, relieved to have exchanged his gilded prison for a more tranquil confinement. But this soft-spoken autocrat, whose exquisite manners and flickering will had once led a courtier to describe...
"You can fall in love, or at least into some kind of infatuation, with Barcelona. But not everyone finds the course of the affair smooth, for as the Spanish historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto recently wrote in his short history ; of the city, "like one of those tryingly beautiful and energetic...
Coincidentally, last week another sleepy little institution, Harvard Law School, displayed good manners by accepting a somewhat less spectacular but still welcome $3 million from alumnus Reginald F. Lewis, boss of the biggest black-owned business in the U.S. -- the food conglomerate TLC Beatrice International Inc. Even though the gift...
What A.R. Gurney is for the old money set, Richard Greenberg is for yuppie arrivistes: a rueful chronicler of meaningless manners, misbegotten mores and loves gone wrong. THE EXTRA MAN, off-Broadway, focuses on a figure common to both circles: the unattached man of uncertain sexuality and undeniable charm who...