Word: mannerses
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Stoppard, the author of "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" and "The Real Thing," delivered the John M. Olin Lecture in Science Center C as part of the Distiguished Lecturer Series. In the past two years, the series has hosted Richard Rodriguez and Miss Manners.
ASTORY THAT is "completely false and completely true." It sounds like the kind of paradox that the Mad Hatter and the March Hare might fling at poor Alice as she sits with them at the tea table, minding her manners. "Tell us a story that is completely false and completely...
Their diverse backgrounds led them to their natural subject, the often amusing conflict of cultures. Their limited budgets forced them to work on canvases that were, by Hollywood standards, miniature. A Room with a View, their best picture so far, is an exquisite, almost delicious comedy of manners about Edwardian...
A SUMMONS TO MEMPHIS by Peter Taylor. The second novel by a 70-year-old master of the short form casts an amused glance back at manners, mores and a family squabble in the Upper South between the two world wars.
IT WAS THE MOST boring period in all of history: the Victorian Era. A time of chastity, of temperence, and of virtue. Of staid manners and reverence for the Queen. Nothing if not dull.