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Young employees wearing Walkmans in the office corridors. Colleagues asking your age, salary or even sexual preference. Drugs at the company picnic. What ever happened to manners in the executive suite? How does a person handle the new situations? Amid the social and economic tumult of the past 20 years...
Baldrige, a syndicated columnist ("Mind Your Manners") who brought efficiency and a touch of white-gloved feminism to her 1978 revision of The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette, is preparing a new office primer that will be published next year. Starting late this summer, her New York City public...
After winning a coveted one-year clerkship with a federal appeals court judge, the young lawyer could not get an offer at a black firm she approached in Montgomery; "sexism," she suspects. So she went into partnership with a white male, and when few took her very seriously, she turned...
For more than a decade now, major U.S. news media (including The Boston Globe, The New York Times, Time and Newsweek magazines, and various television networks) have featured articles which questioned the innate intellectual abilities of Blacks and Hispanics on the basis of their performance on standardized aptitude tests. White...
As the play hits rock bottom in Act H, the rest can only improve. In the more professional third act, the actors seemed to internalize their characters. Cecily and Gwendolyn, for example, argue seriously over trifles--lumps of sugar for their tea and cake--for the first time. Algernon declares...