Word: mannerses
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Well, not the Joe Friday, Jack Webb's immortally stylized police professional, but rather old Joe's nephew, encased in the comical form of Dan Aykroyd. A true inheritor of the manners and morals of the '50s, he is a cop whose unhappy lot is to protect and serve the...
In this crowd, Travis is the proud traditionalist. He has not redefined country so much as reminded everyone of its truest instincts. "I don't like to hear a country singer doing crossover," he admits. "Young people started turning their radios to hear Alabama and Kenny Rogers, and they began...
Parker, the first famous American woman humorist, probably inspired more awe -- and more imitative bad manners -- than any other female of her day. She remains one of the best-known brand names in literature, although nowadays hardly anyone reads her short stories, her flop plays, her mostly slight and bitchy...
At Harvard, there is no similar currency of esteem. The primary social values are the ability to party hard and generate small talk. Harvard is what the world would look like if Miss Manners and Bianca Jagger ran the universe together: the final clubs, Hasty Pudding, and Signet kanoodling together...
Auchincloss gently mocks such pretensions, but he takes seriously those people who try to live by the rules. Times may change; strictures remain for the fortunate few. No Friend Like a New Friend is set in the early 1960s. Frances Hamill, widow of an eminent lawyer, banker and adviser to...