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Singapore Airlines has long been known for its elegant, poised stewardesses, whose teeth and manners are polished by company-paid dentists and the airline's own training school. Last week S.A. became known for something a little less gracious: high-altitude gambling. An S.A. 747 jumbo jet took off...
"Saki, aloof and condescending to his own times, turns out to be one of us. But embracing him is easier than establishing his place in English letters. An unbeliever, he did not concern himself with the relationship of man to God, and critics have often used that theme to test...
In spite of the advice given in Debrett's Etiquette and Modern Manners [July 6], the technique for the proper way to eat a pea can be found in these lines remembered from grammar school days.
The question is too psychologically layered to be answered by Veblen's mechanistic theories. Brooks suggests that the parodic style of showing off is purest at society's extremes. There is the avant-garde's Warholian art and minority put-ons of majority classes, like black mockery...
Showing off, then, is a form of competition. But if the bulk of Americans cannot profitably throw themselves into the game, the future of parody display may not be as bright as Brooks would have us believe. For parody is a style that feeds on the growth of conspicuous consumption...