Word: mannerses
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Earlier this year, Time magazine ran a piece in its "American Notes" section called "Bok in A Hard Place," which was presented as a letter signed by Bok and addressed to "Miss Manners."
In a socially conscious epoch, the fortunes of the fortunate seem irrelevant; in a time of ethnic narcissism, Wasps are out. Yet as Ralph Graves' canny, discerning work proves, the novel of manners is far from obsolete, and the population of boardrooms and island beaches is as compelling as it...
It is not easy. Successive waves of immigration differ, of course, and a refugee from wartime Europe does not have the same experiences as a refugee from postwar Viet Nam 40 years later. But all immigrants have certain things in common, and all know the classic, opposite impulses: to draw...
Those who wished to turn back earlier waves of immigration sometimes used the same language, or worse. In 1751 Benjamin Franklin asked, "Why should the Palatine boors be suffered to swarm into our settlements, and, by herding together, establish their language and manners, to the exclusion of ours? Why should...
Bacon utterly rejects this view. He sees himself not as an expressionist but as a realist who nevertheless stakes the outcome of his art on an opposition between intelligence (ordering, remembering, exemplifying) and sensation. His paintings do not strive to tell stories, but to clamp themselves on the viewers' nervous...