Word: mannerses
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Poor acting and stage directions are occasionally forgotten because of the extreme humor of the dialogue. But the actual women in The Importance of Being Earnest, Riggs and Worthing's "excessively pretty 18-year-old ward" Cecily Cardew (Melinda McNavy), act like two adolescents in love for the first time...
"I still would like to think," Henry Adams once wrote to his older brother Charles, "that a century or two hence when everything else about us is forgotten my letters might still be read and quoted as a memorial of manners and habits at the time of the great secession...
Adams was right. More than a century after he wrote, his letters may still be read and quoted as a memorial of manners-as well as on the construction of a personality. Adams was one of the great letter writers of the English language. Proof is now offered in a...
In an age when manners are measured by how long it takes someone's secretary to return a telephone call, the art of writing letters may seem obsolete, like designing stained-glass windows or working gold. The Adamses traditionally thought otherwise. All of them believed it their duty to...
Both students and teachers are casting an apprehensive eye toward this spring's graduation ceremonies. Some administrators are afraid that the crowd manners of the '60s are on the way back. They may be. The operative logic then, as now, was what might be called the Doctrine of...