Word: mannerses
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How come you're so upper class and we're so lower class, and you're our daughter?" a Government economist named Jacob Perlman once asked his sassy child Judith. Not an easy question for the future Miss Manners to answer. Perhaps some kind of metamorphosis began...
Robert Martin, 49, an affable, Harvard-educated physician who does research in biochemical genetics at the National Institutes of Health, claims that his own manners have required no polishing during their 25-year marriage because he was "already perfect when we met, and so was she." If anyone has the...
Just as Miss Manners urges, the Martins have reared, educated and nagged at two children, who appear to have acquired flawless manners. "It's amazing how much a parent can terrify a child without actually doing anything," says Nicholas, 18, a freshman at Harvard. Jacobina, 13, plays the harp...
Having left the Post to live by syndication in 1982, Martin now works alone in an antique-filled ground-floor office in a town house a ten-minute bus ride from her home. The bookshelves contain a large collection of etiquette books, from The Book of the Courtier to Victorian...
The remaining four days Martin devotes to other writing: book reviews, speeches, a new novel titled Style and Substance. Her first, Gilbert, a rather arch attempt at a comedy of manners, received generally favorable reviews in 1982. She has also published a collection of newspaper essays, The Name on the...