Word: mannerses
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DEAR Miss MANNERS: I want my kids to feel that I am their friend, but I can't make them understand why l can't stand it when they and their friends call me "Pops" and tell me to get snacks for them and . . . turn on the television...
Despite Miss Manners' spartan dedication, it seems hard to believe that the perplexed readers who write her 10,000 letters a year are really inspired by either idealism or altruism. Yuppies, in particular, are pragmatic people who expect a dollar's value for a dollar spent. Such expectations...
That is why Cartoonist Hamilton, who has just finished a book titled Up in Class, was so struck by the black-tie yuppies' dinner with no servants in attendance. "Everything I can see in the way of new manners is very ersatz and copied, very nostalgic for something they...
Even when there are no promotions or pay increases immediately involved, today's etiquette is often based on the struggle for status, or what Californians like to call "personal space." At a chromed and carpeted temple of body worship on Santa Monica Boulevard, for example, everybody scrupulously obeys certain...
Even the current preoccupation with healthy diets can become a form of skirmishing. Television Producer Irwin Rosten now asks his guests what they do and do not eat when he invites them to dinner; this can get quite complicated when the guests not only observe various religious dietary rules but...