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Independence, Tish believes, has been the single most important factor in changing American manners in the past decade. "Women have discovered that they can live alone without crumbling," she says. "More men are living alone and not crumbling. A woman can entertain marvelously and tend the bar and make just...
In an "equal world," Baldrige believes, the general operating principles are efficiency, kindness and elementary good sense. "Whoever happens to be in the lead opens the door and holds it for the other," she writes. "Whoever first sees the taxi hails it. People emerge from an elevator in a logical...
"Manners," Tish insists, "make you feel self-reliant.
Every business executive ought to pay careful attention to Baldrige's section on telephone manners. People should place their own telephone calls, she believes, or at least be ready and waiting on the line when
Do Americans really need all of this advice? In any age, most of the interest in manners is casually voyeuristic rather than urgently practical. Manners are entertaining, inherently dramatic. Taken all together, they present a sort of shimmering petit-point likeness of a society. Especially now, in an era of...