Word: mannerses
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By Malone's account on that recent afternoon, Jefferson would have been appalled at the size of Government today, the number of cars on the streets (a prime cause, in Malone's eyes, of urban bad manners), the profit motive in everything, even sports, the ascendancy of merchants...
Although she has revised Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette, nothing of the sedate Vere de Vere clings to Baldrige. She has been charging full blast most of her life. She approaches manners from the perspective of a working woman who did not marry until she was 35...
Not surprisingly, Baldrige's theory of manners is brisk: apart from simple kindness, she says, their chief purpose is to make life more efficient.
When she reflects on how she might approach her life if given the chance to start it over again, Tish sees a vision curiously distant from the world of manners: "First of all, I'd go on the line and learn factory jobs, with the goal of someday being...
American manners will never again rise to the whale-boned grandeur that they achieved in the imagination of Emily Post, if not always in the reality of her time. A sampling of Emily's instructions to the well bred: