Word: mannerses
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New Manners
I was fascinated by your story "America's New Manners" and Social Arbiter Letitia Baldrige [Nov. 27]. After all, when all's said and done, it's really quite simple. Good manners are best defined by the golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have them...
Win some, lose some. A month ago, Chicago's Barren Foundation abruptly withdrew an award that was to have been presented to British Gynecologist Patrick Steptoe, who with Physiologist Robert Edwards was laboratory godfather of the world's first test-tube baby. The reason: the two had yet...
These are the legacy of the Puritan's Covenant psychology, and they are a great source of the old American demon, absolutism. The movements epitomize one half of the national psyche, the Puritan conscience, and contend with the other half, democratic license. They take up, once again, the Puritan's...
He will open her act in Tahoe, but she bristles at queries, about their private life. "Of course he lives with me. We eat at the same table." A body guard is close by for those occasions when crowds become "too pushy. You cannot imagine how people forget their manners...