Word: mannerses
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The compartments were constructed when she left suburban journalism in East London and its Essex suburbs at the time of Simon's birth. It was then, she recalls, that she began writing fiction, waiting for her husband Don, a political reporter, to come home. "I started a historical novel, a...
A man from New York, a city not noted for its gentle traffic manners, tells of the time he lost a muffler on Storrow Drive to a Bostonian aggressively merging onto that thoroughfare. The Bostonian, despite the fact that he shed his own bumper in the clash, never glanced to...
That sense of the ominous haunts Brooke Astor's novel: the worst is waiting to occur immediately after the curtain falls on the kind of fiction that has been out of style since the period it concerns. In this dry, sparkling comedy of manners, reminiscent of Edith Wharton's lighter...
"Marriage is a fascinating tradition, and it's the only one left that matters," muses Letitia Baldrige, author of several books on etiquette. "A wedding is a beautiful spectator sport. It pleases everybody immensely. And the presents do flow in." She thinks the resurgence of traditional weddings is "a rebellion...
Since VCRs have become the current wedding present of choice and hence may not be available to some couples until it is too late for Miss Manners' tape to be of any prenuptial planning benefit, some more immediate guidance may be called for. Remember the solemn words of Ted Schmidt...